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

Eero Saarinen
b. 8-20-1910; Finland
d. 9-1-1961; Ann Arbor, MI

Eero Saarinen was the son of Eliel Saarinen, noted architect and designer at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

Eero was also an architect and furniture designer, adapting his modern styles - sweeping and arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism - to meet the needs of client's intended use.

One of Saarinen's most recognizable designs is the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
b. 3-13-1781; Germany
d. 10-9-1841

German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel was also a notable painter, stage designer, as well as the designer of the "Iron Cross".

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man
• perspective posters

Senemut
Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1292 BC), Ancient Egypt

Senemut was an architect and government official whose masterpiece building project, the Mortuary Temple complex of Hatshepsut on the West Bank of the Nile, close to the entrance to the Valley of the Kings, is considered to be among the great buildings of the ancient world.

The focal point, a colonnaded structure of perfect harmony built into a cliff face nearly one thousand years before the Parthenon, sits atop a series of terraces that once were graced with gardens.

• Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahari

Sebastiano Serlio
b. 9-6-1475; Italy
d. c. 1554

Sebastiano Serlio was a Mannerist style architect and stage set designer, as well as a civil engineer of fortifications.

Serlio most significant contribution to architecture was the canonization of the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" (aka "Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospettiva") which included woodcuts of designs for stage settings in the section of his treatis devoted to perspective.

Serlio also consulted in the rennovations of the medieval French Palace of Fontainebleau that was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the 16th century by François I, who wanted to make it a 'New Rome'. Surrounded by an immense park, the Italianate palace combines Renaissance and French artistic traditions.

Gustav Stickley
b. 3-9-1858; Wisconsin
d. 4-21-1942; NY

Gustav Stickley is most noted as the leader of the American Craftsman movement with his Craftsman Magazine. Together with architect Harvey Ellis, they produced plans for bunglow style homes and furniture.

Gustav's brothers Leopold (Lee), Albert, Charles and John George Stickley were also important figures in the Arts and Crafts movement.

Abbot Suger
b. c. 1081; France
d. 1-15-1151

Suger, as the abbot or head of the monestary of Saint-Denis, was a statesman - historian involved in secular affairs which included the rebuilding of Saint-Denis in the new Gothic style of architecture.

• Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures

Louis Sullivan
b. 9-4-1856; Boston, MA
d. 4-14-1924; Chicago, IL

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler were the architects of the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY.

Themes of dark brick and terra cotta ornamentation dominate the building's exterior design.

• They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture

Henry van de Velde
b. 4-3-1863; Belgium
d. 10-25-1957

Henry van de Velde, architect and furniture designer working in the Art Nouveau style, was inspired by the English Arts and Crafts Movement.

Van de Velde worked with the German state-sponsored efforts to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques after WW I to give Germany a competitive footing with England and the United States.

• Henry van de Velde in Weimar

Giorgio Vasari
b. 7-30-1511; Tuscany
d. 6-27-1574

Renaissance architect and painter Giorgio Vasari, who coined the term "Renaissance", is best remembered for his biographies of Italian, The Lives of the Artists.

Among Vasari's architectural designs are the loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi and renovations to the medieval churches of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce.

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
b. 10-1-1507; Italy
d. 7-7-1573

• Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture by Giacomo Vignola

Sketch of a Square Church W/Central Dome and Minaret, Leonardo da Vinci
b. 4-15-1452; Italy

• more Da Vinci posters

Vitruvius
b. ca. 80/70 BC?
d. ca. 25 BC

Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote De architectura ("On architecture"), a ten book treatise on architecture, as a guide for building projects.

De architectura is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods, the planning and design of structures such as aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours, and small machines, measuring devices, instruments.

Vitruvius is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery.

Stanford White
b. 11-9-1853; New York City
d. 6-25-1906; NYC, murdered by Harry K. Thaw

Sir Christopher Wren
b. 10-20-1632; England
d. 2-25-1723

Wren, also a respected scientist in astronomy (he was a professor of astronomy at Oxford) and mathematics, was a founder of the Royal Society.

• His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren

Frank Lloyd Wright
TIME, January 17, 1938
b. 6-8-1867; Wisconsin
d. 6-10-1926