Architects

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology of the 20th century. This Leonardo da Vinci of our time - an incomparable designer, engineer, and architect - proved that a single individual, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world.
Buckminster Fuller's Universe

Frank Lloyd Wright

This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks
Frank Lloyd Wright

Louis I Kahn

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.
Louis I Kahn by by Robert McCarter

Julia Morgan

William Randolph Hearst's dazzling "castle" at San Simeon, California, is famous world round, yet only the aficionado can name Julia Morgan as the architect who built it.
Julia Morgan, Architect

Antoni Gaudi

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was a Spanish architect and regarded as the most creative originator of his art in modern times. Neo-gothic, art nouveau and surrealism are the trends that are commonly used to describe the style of his work.
Antoni Gaudi y Cornet

Involved in planning and designing

An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. In the broadest sense an architect is a person who translates the user's needs into the builder's requirements.
An architect must thoroughly understand the building and operational codes under which his or her design must conform. Architects must understand the various methods available to the builder for building the client's structure, so that he or she can negotiate with the client to produce a best possible compromise of the results desired within budget.