Louis Kahn was an American architect (1901-1974). Subsequent to forming his own firm he also taught at the Yale School of Architecture as well as the University of Pennsylvania. His buildings were sculptural and massive. He was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. His Parliament Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jatiyo Sangshad Bhadan) was previously featured in Brutalist post.
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Sir Terry Farrell is a British architect. Farrell was born in Sale, Cheshire in 1938. He studied at Newcastle University and the University of Pennsylvania. His style is postmodern, for instance, the M16 Building. In 1980 he founded his own firm the Farrells. In 1991 he opened an office in Asia and created some iconic buildings there, including KK100, the Incheon International Airport, and the Beijing South railway station.
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A.M. Calderon is top right


Continuing our review of Canadian Architects today we discover Alfred Merigon Calderon (1861-1936). Calderon was born in England in. He was educated at Sevenoaks in Kent, the London University College School, and at the Royal Academy in London. He apprenticed with George E. Street in 1877. Next, he worked with Charles J. Ferguson. In 1887 he emigrated to Ottawa. He formed a partnership with King M. Arnoldi before opening his own practice. In 1902 he moved to the United States then returned to Canada in 1906 this time in Edmonton. After a couple of brief partnerships, he returned to working on his own. He worked in Alberta until 1930 then moved to British Columbia – where he is buried.
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In 2017 as part of the sesquicentennial celebrations, I attended a Heritage Ottawa talk by Rick MacEwen, a principal at Watson MacEwan Teramura Architects. MacEwen spearheaded the Ottawa Architects 150 project. Yesterday I pulled out the poster prepared for the event and thought, ok let’s see what we have. And so today we start with A.J. Hazelgrove.
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Michael Green, born in 1966, is a Canadian architect. In 2012, with partner Natalie Telewiak, he founded MGA / Michael Green Architecture. Their area of expertise is constructions made of timber. Green has written several books on constructing with timber. Here he shares his thoughts in a TED talk “Why we should build Wooden Skyscrapers”.
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A greener post you will have never seen! Last night I started exploring the winners of the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP). Nghia, a Vietnamese architect, was the recipient of the Interior Design of the Year for his Nocenco Cafe in 2020. He studied at the Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo. His designs are sustainable, make use of locally available materials, traditional, yet modern.
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Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect. He studied at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Architectural Association in London. He is the principal at UNStudio. Van Berkel has lectured and taught in various universities. Learn more about van Berkel’s human-centric approach in this TED talk.
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Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philipe Vassal are the Pritzker Architecture Prize laureates for 2021.

Lacaton and Vassal met at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecure in the 70s. Subsequently, Lacaton pursued her studies, and Vassal went to Niger. Lacaton would visit Niger regularly, and there, they did their first international project together, a staw hut.
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Ma Yansong is a Chinese architect born in 1975 in Beijing. He studied at the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture as well as Yale University. In 2004 he founded MAD Architects.
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