Architects Posters & Prints, pg 3/4
for art, art history and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and offices.

Thomas Jefferson
b. 4-13-1743; Albemarle Co., VA
d. 7-4-1826, Monticello, VA

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, studied the architecture of Paris and read about classical architecture, particularly Palladio, which provided him with a firm understanding of the classical tradition. Jefferson's designs were the precursors for Federal architecture.

Among Jefferson's designs are Monticello, his own home, the campus of the University of Virginia, the Virginia State Capitol and private homes.

• Thomas Jefferson, Architect: The Built Legacy of Our Third President
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Philip Johnson
b. 7-8-1906; Cleveland, OH
d. 1-25-2005, New Canaan, CT

Philip Johnson was a very influential architect in 20th century America: he iniatiated the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1930, built his famous glass house in 1949, assisted Mies van der Rohe in the 39 story NY Seagrams Building, designed the PPG Place in Pittsburgh, the Crystal Cathedral in California, the IDS Center in Minneapolis, and the ATT (now Sony) Building in NY.

• Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
b. 6-7-1868; Glasgow, Scotland
d. 12-10-1928

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Miss Cranston to design elements of her teahouses including the most popular Willow Tearooms (1903). Mackintosh, who was also an accomplished watercolorist, designed in the Arts and Crafts style inspired by John Ruskin; other Arts and Crafts designers included William Morris, Gustav Stickley, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Design for the Medici Chapel in the church of San Lorenzo, Florence (charcoal)

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
b. 3-27-1886; Germany
d. 8-17-1969; Chicago, IL

Mies van der Rohe is most closely associated with Chicago, designed the Seagram Building, in collaboration with Philip Johnson, an office tower located in NYC as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Furniture and Interiors

William Morris
b. 3-24-1834; England
d. 10-3-1896

English writer, artist, and socialist William Morris did not practice as an architect, however he influenced the look of the built environment through the hand crafted work embodied in the Arts & Crafts Movement.

The Red House, designed for William & Jane Morris by Philip Webb, was furnished by the Morris' and their Pre-Raphaelite friends.

• William Morris & Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner

Oscar Niemeyer
b. 12-15-1907; Brazil

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho pioneered the construction possibilities of reinforced concrete and is considered a "sculptor" of monuments. In 1956 Niemeyer designed the buildings for the planned city of Brazilia, the new capitol of Brazil.

• The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer

Andrea Palladio
b. 11-30-1508; Padua
d. 8-19-1580

The Palladian style, named after him, adhered to classical Roman principles of well ordered space that provided harmony and calm. His buildings feature symmetry based on a strict axial basis, Greek classic temple facades with pillars and pilasters, and the arch (Palladian window), characteristics that can be found in the work of Bulfinch in the US Capitol building and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

He was given the name Palladio by one of his appreciative aristocratic clients to connect his talent with the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena Palle.

• The Four Books on Architecture by Andrea Palladio

I.M. Pei
b. 4-26-1917; China

I. M. Pei, a master of modern architecture, is particularly noted for his commission to design a new main entrance to the world famous Louvre Museum.

Pei's solution is a centrally located glass pyramid with direct access to galleries in each of the museum's three wings, while acting as a skylight for large area constructed under the courtyard providing that provides all the public amenities and technical support for a modern museum.

• Conversations With I. M. Pei: Light Is the Key
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William L. Pereira
b. 4-25-1909; Chicago, IL
d. 11-13-1985; Los Angeles, CA

William Pereira was the architect of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, and of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (with his partner Charles Luckman and in collaboration of Paul Williams and Welton Becket).

He was also the master city planner for Irvine and Newport Beach as well as a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California (1949), where one of his students was Frank Gehry.

• William Pereira

John Augustus Roebling
b. 6-12-1806; Germany
d. 7-22-1869; Brooklyn Heights, NY

John Roebling was famous for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge which spans the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. When the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883, it was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world as well as the largest suspension bridge.

• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

John Ruskin
b. 2-8-1819; London
d. 1-20-1900

John Ruskin, an art and social critic, was extremely influential writer in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, espousing that art, and therefore architecture, express the values of a society. Ruskin said the 'Decorated Gothic' style was the highest form of architecture yet achieved, from the soaring spires to gargoyles.

The Clock Tower (Big Ben) and the Houses of Parliament, designed in 1837 by Barry and Pugin, reflect Gothic Revival style as opposed to the Neo-classical adopted by the fledging United States to represent democracy.

Ruskin's first work, The Poetry of Architecture, was a "study of cottages, villas, and other dwellings which centred around a Wordsworthian argument that buildings should be sympathetic to their local environments, and should use local materials".

Ruskin, who gave away most of his inheritance to founding a charity and funding housing reform, saw his theories about social justice influencing the development of the British Labour party and of Christian socialism.

• Mountainous Landscape by John Ruskin
• Great Thinker Quote- John Ruskin
• The Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin
• Praeterita (autobiography), John Ruskin