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May 8, 2023 Blog, education

John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope was born in New York City on April 24, 1874, and died on August 27, 1937. His father, a portrait painter of renown who had been elected to the National Academy of Design in 1857, dies when Pope was only six years old. The family claimed descent from John Pope, who arrived..

May 1, 2023 Blog, education

Otto Wagner

Otto Wagner was an Austrian architect, teacher, and urban planner who was born on July 13, 1841, near Penzing Vienna and died on April 11, 1918, in Vienna. He was a leading member of the Vienna Session movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement. Many of his works are in..

April 24, 2023 Blog, education

Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, original name Ephraim Owen Goldberg, also called Frank O. Gehry was born on February 28, 1929, in Toronto Canada. This Canadian American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, and often audacious work won him worldwide renown. In 1947 Gehry and his family immigrated to Los Angeles, where he soon began taking night..

April 17, 2023 Blog, education

Stanford White

Stanford White was born on November 9, 1853, and died on June 25, 1906. He was an American architect, the most imaginative partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White which was one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He was carefully trained as an architect by Henry Hobson Richardson. In June 1880 he..

April 11, 2023 Blog, education

James Wyatt

James Wyatt was born on August 3, 1746, in Burton Constable Staffordshire England. He died on September 4, 1813, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. Wyatt was an English architect chiefly remembered for his romantic country houses, especially the extraordinary Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey. He was considered one of the most outstanding, prolific, and successful architects of his..

April 7, 2023 Architecture, Blog, education

Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan was an American architect and has been called the “Father of skyscrapers” and “Father of modernism.” He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with..