Famous Architects Posters & Prints “Bo...-Bu...-”
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Giotto di Bondone
Kees Boeke
Donato Bramante

Lancelot "Capability" Brown
Marc Isambard Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Giotto di Bondone
b. c. 1267; near Florence, Italy
d. c. 1337

Giotto is considered a founding father of Italian Renaissance though only his Florentine gothic style campanile, or bell tower, on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, and the Scrovegni Chapel fresco cycle in Padua, are unquestionably attributed to him.

• Giotto: Complete Works

Kees Boeke
b. 9-25-1884; Alkmaar, The Netherlands
d. 7-3-1966

Kees Boeke, who trained as an architect, is best remembered as a Quaker missionary, WWI pacificist who was a cofounder of an organization that later evolved into War Resisters' International, and educator associated with Montessori methods.

In his 1957 essay/book Cosmic View he presents the universe from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and as the founder of “De werkplaats” (the workshop) school, he introduced his idea of sociocracy where students are co-responsible with teachers for their curriculum.

FYI -
• The Cosmic View was the inspiration of several films - Charles & Raye Eames' The Power of Ten, Cosmic Zoom and Cosmic Voyage.

Donato Bramante
b. 1444; Fermignano, Italy
d. 3-11-1514; Rome

Donato Bramante, architect and town planner, was first a painter of murals who is noted for introducing perspective features into his architectural plans that gave the illusion of much larger spaces. His work for Pope Julius II St. Peter's Basilica achieved the “grand manner” which indirectly led to Mannerism style.

• Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael: The High Renaissance in Rome

Lancelot “Capability” Brown
b. c. 1716; Kirkharle, Northumberland, England
d. 2-6-1783; London

Capability Brown is best remembered as “England's greatest gardener”, designing over 170 parks and gardens.

Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS
b. 4-25-1769; Hacqueville, Normandy, France
d. 12-12-1849; London, England

Inventor Marc Isambard Brunel, was the lead engineer for the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel.

Built beneath the River Thames in London and opened in 1843, the engineering feat was accomplished with Brunel's 'tunnelling shield' that allowed the construction by covering the area to be excavated and thus protecting 36 laborers as the worked independently; propulsion for the device was a screw which drove the device forward in steps the width of a brick.

Marc Brunel was elected to the Royal Society and knighted for his service in the construction of the Thames Tunnel. While Sir Brunel was highly respected and honored, it was his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel who is better known as an engineer.

• Thames Tunnel to Channel Tunnel: 150 Years of Civil Engineering
• one point perspective illustrations

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
b. 4-9-1806; Portsmouth, England
d. 9-15-1859

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British engineer best known for revolutionizing public transportation with the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.

• Brunel: The Life And Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Filippo Brunelleschi
b. 1377; Florence, Italy
d. 4-15-1446

Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the foremost architects of the Italian Renaissance, studied the classical architecture of Rome and Greece, rediscovering the principles of linear perspective.

Brunelleschi also solved the engineering problems of constructing his most noted accomplishment - the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.

• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Charles Bulfinch
b. 8-8-1763; Boston, MA
d. 4-15-1844

Charles Bulfinch, regarded as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession, served as Commissioner of Public Building for the fledgling nation. His works of the original rotunda and dome of the U. S. Capitol, are the origin of the Federal style of classical architecture prominent in early 19th century America, and inspired by Andrea Palladio.

The first Architect of the US Capitol was William Thornton, the second was Benjamin Latrobe; Bulfinch was the third.

• The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch

Daniel Burnham
b. 9-4-1846; Henderson, NY
d. 6-1-1912; Germany, buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

Daniel Burnham was considered the preeminent architect and urban planner in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He designed the 22 story Beaux-Arts style Flatiron Building (1902) which considered one of the first skyscrapers.

Originally a nautical term to describe tall masts, “skyscraper” was applied to the very tall structures being built at the end of the 19th century in New York and Chicago.

Burnham and his partner John Wellborn Root (1840-1891) also designed the 21 story Masonic Temple Building in Chicago (built 1892), as well as the initial plans for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which were significantly altered to become what is called the “White City”.

• The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City