Many of us will by now have binge watched Season 4 of The Crown. As the queen would not allow filming in Buckingham Palace, alternate sites had to be found to represent its interior as well as the interiors of Balmoral, Windsor, and Sandringham.
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Let us travel to another time today – the 16th century. Mimar Sinan really was starchitect. He was responsible for over 300 structures, many that endure to this day. Sinan was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 1490, he died in 1588. He was the most celebrated architect of the Ottoman Empire. The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne is considered his masterpiece the Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul his most famous.
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Joseph Hoffmann was born in 1870 in Austria-Hungary. He died in 1956 in Vienna. He was an Austrian architect and designer. He was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession which was an art movement closely related to Art Nouveau. Members of that group also included Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, and Gustav Klimt. Together they founded the Wiener Wekstätte, pioneers of modern design which influenced the Bauhaus and Art Deco styles. He studied at the Higher School of Arts and Crafts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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Muzharul Islam was born in 1923 in Murshidabad, British India. He died in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012 at the age of 88. As a Bangladeshi architect he is considered the father of Bengali modernism. He studied at the University of Oregon, AA School of Architecture in London, and at Yale. As you look at his work remember to set yourself back to the 50s and 60s. He is the recipient of many awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (I suspect another source of great architects has been found).
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Gae Aulenti was an Italian architect. Born in 1927 in Palazzolo dello Stella, Italy, she died in 2012. She studied architecture at the Milan School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University. Her assossication with Casabella and subsequently Olivetti broadened her scope to include much design.
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Greg Lynn was born in in Ohio in 1964. He studied architecture and philosophy at the Miami University of Ohio and at Princeton. In 2001 Time magazine named him one of the most innovative persons of the 21st century. In 2005 Forbes named him one of the 10 most influential living architectects (more on that another time). His specialty is computer-aided biomorphic design (more on that as well another time). Biomorphic designs are those inspired by nature. Featured here are existing buildings as well as studies.
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