REM KOOLHAAS/OMA
After living the first years of his adolescence in Indonesia, Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam 1944) moved to Amsterdam, where he worked as a film writer and journalist. A short time later, he went to London to study at the Architectural Association. A trip to New York gave him the inspiration for his publication "Delirius in New York, A retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan". In 1975, he made the move from architectural theory to practice and founded, with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Mandelon Vriesendorp, the studio Office for Metropolitan Architectu...
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MARIO BOTTA

ANDREA PALLADIO
Andrea Palladio (1508, Padua-1580 Vicenza) began his architectural training under the protective mantle of the poet Giangiorgio Trissino, who provided him with the opportunity to travel to Rome. Once there, Palladio studied the city’s classical buildings, an experience which later led him to publish one of the first guides of the eternal city. "L’ Antichita di Roma" (1554). He also studied the 10 books of Vitruvius, the only theoretical legacy of architecture from Roman period. One of the Palladio’s fist large architectural works was the t...
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TADAO ANDO

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 -1928), architect and designer, studied at the Glasgow School of Art and worked for Honeyman and Keppie, an important architectural studio of the time. Noted also for his work as a designer and interior decorator, Mackintosh’s furniture combines the Scottish tradition with all the delicacy of the new modernity. Part of the Art Nouveau movement, his work has an especially innovative style which influenced the designers of the Viennese Secession and the development of the Modern Movement. With time, he has bec...
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ENRIC MIRALLES AND BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE

EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA

JEAN NOUVEL
Jean Nouvel (Fumel 1945) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris while alternating his studies with work in the office of Claude Parent. From his beginnings, Jean Nouvel sought solutions alien to the modern movement and was thus already considered postmodern in the 1970s. During that period he met the scene decorator Jacques Marquet who is a very important colleague and good partner of conversation. All of his buildings have a light and etheric appearance, such as the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid as well as the Cartier Foundation in Pa...
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RENZO PIANO
While Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) was studying architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan, he worked with Franco Albini. The projects of his father, who was an architect as well, were a very important source of experience for him. He completed his training with trips to Great Britain and the United States between 1965 and 1970. In 1971 he founded a company with Richard Roberts, his partner on the Georges Pombidou Center project in Paris. One of the most renomated projects of his, since 1993 existing, company Renzo Piano Building Workshop is th...
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OTTO WAGNER
In spite of its original influences, the work of Otto Wagner (Vienna 1841 -1918) represents a movement towards the new trends that will dominate the Europe of the early twentieth century. Wagner’s architecture concedes great importance to the building in relation to the city and also to its usefulness. His conception of urban design, deeply permeated by the Baroque and the renaissance styles, is translated into the creation of open spaces and an ordered distribution of buildings. Thus Wagner imparts the new design in Vienna in his capacit...
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FOSTER AND PARTNERS
Sir Norman Foster (Manchester 1945) studied architecture in the city of his birth and in Yale. He was the co-founder of the Team 4, an enterprise that would develop a number of innovative housing projects. The break-up of his group coincided with Foster’s years of the cooperation with Buckminster Fuller in the Architectural Association. Because of the work carried out by his office, Foster and Partners, he has received the most prestigious awards among them the Pritzker Prize and the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects...
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