1) Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE (born 31 October 1950), founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving to London in 1972 to attend the Architectural Association (AA) School where she was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She went on to become partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and taught at the AA alongside OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.
2) TOM WRIGHT
Born in Shirley, Croydon, Greater London in 1957] Wright studied at the Royal Russell School and then later at the Kingston University School of Architecture.[citation needed] He qualified as an architect in 1983. Wright went on to become a director of the architectural practice Lister Drew Haines Barrow, which was taken over in 1991 by Atkins. Wright became head of Atkins’ architecture arm.
Wright became design director for the Jumeirah Beach Resort, Dubai, and designed the Burj Al Arab (Tower of the Arabs).It was conceived in October 1993 and finished in 1999. The brief was to create an icon for Dubai: a building that would become synonymous with the place, as the Sydney Opera House is with Sydney and the Eiffel Tower is with Paris. The hotel is built in the shape of a dhow’s (a traditional Arabic ship) sail to reflect Dubai′s seafaring heritage combined with a modern aspect moving forwards into the future.
3)Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect, best known for his works of Modern architecture, including the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his works of postmodern architecture, particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was designed for AT&T, and 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.[1]
4) Piano
Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937, into a family of builders. He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated from the university in 1964 and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters. He worked at the firm of iconic architect Louis Kahn in Philadelphia from 1965 to 1970 and later with Z.S. Makowsky in London. He then established an architectural firm with Richard Rogers named Piano & Rogers, where they worked together from 1971 to 1977. It is here that they designed their most famous project – the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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