Architects Posters & Prints, pg 2/4
for art, art history and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and offices.

Ferdinand Cheval
b. 1836; France
d. 8-19-1924

Chevel's Le Palais Ideal (the "Ideal Palace"), regarded as an “extraordinary example of navve art architecture”, was built over a period of 33 years by a postman who was inspired by the shape of a stone he tripped over.

Mary Colter
b. 4-4-1869; Pittsburgh, PA
d. 1-8-1958

Mary Colter was responsible for 21 projects of the Fred Harvey Company (Harvey House and Harvy Girls) along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train route and resorts across the southwest.

• Mary Colter: Builder upon the Red Earth (Grand Canyon Association)

Le Corbusier
b. 10-6-1887; Switzerland
d. 8-27-1965; France

Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, was an architect, designer, urban planner, furniture designer, writer and painter, dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities.

Le Corbusier, who is most known for his contributions to Modern Architecture, attended a kindergarten that used materials created by educator Friedrich Froebel.

• Towards a New Architecture

Daedalus

Daedalus, or Cunning Worker , from Greek mythology, is mentioned by both Homer and Ovid as creating the labyrinth to keep the Minotaur. A strict definition of a labyrinth is a “structures with a single-path ... to the center ... an unambiguous through-route to the center and back ... not designed to be difficult to navigate”, as opposed to a maze, that was meant to confuse.

Daedalus most cunning work may have been wings he created so he and his young son Icarus could escape from King Minos who had imprisoned them to prevent the secret of the labyrinth leaving Crete.

Dinocrates
fl last quarter 4th century BC; Greece

Dinocrates of Rhodes, architect and technical adviser to Alexander the Great, is known for planning the city of Alexandria, among other structures.

The Colossus of Mount Athos was in his first plans for a city glorifying Alexander. Alexander rejected the Mount Athos as an inhospitable site.

Charles & Ray Eames

Charles Eames (b. 6-17-1907, St. Louis, MO; d. 8-21-1978) and his wife Ray (b. 12-15-1912, Sacramento, CA; d. 8-21-1988) produced industrial, furniture and graphic design, art, film and architecture iconic of the 20th century.

The Eames also produced the short film "The Powers of Ten".

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
b. 12-15-1832; France
d. 12-27-1923

Eiffel, a French structural engineer and architect specializing in metal structures, is most remembered for designing the Eiffel Tower (built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris).

Eiffel also designed the armature for sculptor Frederic Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty in New York.

Another of Eiffel's designs, one for a wine tasting rotunda at the Exposition Universalle 1900, is now known as La Ruche (the beehive), a building that was dismantled and relocated to Montparnesse as low cost artist's residence and studio space that flourished until World War II.

• Eiffel: The Genius Who Reinvented Himself

R. Buckminster Fuller
b. 7-12-1895; Massachusetts
d. 7-1-1983

Bucky Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, poet and visionary.

Fuller was primarily concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Further he wanted to know how an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, could do to improve humanity's condition that large organizations, governments, or private business could not do.

Buckminster Fuller was the great nephew of feminist and author Margaret Fuller, developed the geodesic dome (geodesics are a network of great circles lying approximately on the surface of a sphere), designed the Dymaxion House, attended a Froebelian kindergarten, and has the fullerene, a carbon molecule, named for him.

All children are born geniuses. 9999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently, degeniused
by grown-ups. This happens because human beings are born naked, helpless  and though superbly equipped cerebrally  utterly lacking in experience, therefore utterly ignorant. Their delicate sensing equipment is, as yet, untried. Born with build-in hunger, thirst, curiosity, the procreative urge, they can only learn what humanity has learned by trial and error  by billions and billions of errors. Yet humanity is also endowed with self-deceiving pride. All those witnessing the errors of others proclaim that they (the witnesses) could have prevented those errors had they only been consulted. People should not make mistakes  they mistakenly say. Motivated entirely by love, but also by fear for the futures of the children they love, parents, in their ignorance, act as though they know all the answers and curtail the spontaneous exploratory acts of their children lest the children make mistakes.  But genius does its own thinking; it has confidence in its own exploratory findings, in its own intuitions, in the knowledge gained from its own mistakes. Nature has her own gestation rates for evolutionary development.
The actions of parents represent the checks and balances of nature s gestation control. Humanity can evolve healthily only at a given rate. Maria Montessori was fortunately permitted to maintain, sustain, and cultivate her innate genius. Her genius invoked her awareness of the genius inherent in all children. Her intuition and initiative inspired her to discover ways of safeguarding this genius while allaying fears of parents. But the way was not always easy. Hers was the difficult frontiering task of genius. 
Buckminster Fuller

• Critial Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Fuller Projection Global Map - Our Spaceship Earth
• ecology posters

Antonio Gaudi
b. 6-25-1852; Catalan, Spain
d. 6-10-1926; Barcelona

Antonio Gaudi, notable for his unique style and highly intricate designs, was afflicted with inflammation of the joints from childhood, making moving about painful and thus providing the opportunity to look carefully and think creatively rather than rushing around.

Gaudi's careful observations of nature, the Spanish gothic style, and his faith are expressed in the massive Sagrada Famila Catholic church in Barcelona, under construction since 1882.

• Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect

Frank O. Gehry
b. 2-28-1929; Canada

Frank Gehry, born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, designs buildings that are “destinations”, attracting tourists and sightseers.

Gehry's best known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic; and his private residence in Santa Monica, California.

• Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works

Walter Gropius
The Dessau Bauhaus
b. 5-18-1883; Germany
d. 7-5-1969; Boston, MA

Walter Gropius, architect and founder of Bauhaus, is one of the pioneers of “modern” architecture along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

The Bauhaus (“House of Building”) was both an academic school combining fine arts and crafts as well as the design movement in modern architecture that form reflect function.

Gropius was married to the widow of composer Gustave Mahler.

• The New Architecture and The Bauhaus

Paul Hankar
b. 12-11-1859; Belgium
d. 1-17-1901

Art Noveau

• The Art Nouveau Style

Villard de Honnecourt
fl. 13th century; France

Villard de Honnecourt traveled throughout Medieval cathedral building sites making drawings and detailed descriptions of sculpture, architectural plans, elevations and details, ecclesiastical objects and mechanical devices.

• The Medieval Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
n�e Friedrich Stowasser
b. 12-15-1928; Austria
d. 2-19-2000; at sea

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an artist, painter, sculptor, performer, and architect known for his unconventioanl architectural facades, buildings with wavy floors, clothing, postage stamp, flag and poster design.

FYI - Hundertwasser attended a Montessori school.

• more Friedensreich Hundertwasser posters
• ecology posters

Imhotep
Third Dynasty (2690-2610 BC), Ancient Egypt

Imhotep, an Egyptian polymath, is probably the architect of the Pyramid of Djoser, or Step Pyramid, at Saqqara. He also may have been the first to use columns, is credited with the invention of papyrus, and attributed with being the author of a medical treatise of anatomical observations, ailments and cures.

• Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture