Favorite Architect(s)

[Tom Servo]

After being utterly APPALLED by the recent AIA surveyed list of American's favorite buildings, I was curious of everyone's favorite architects. I want to know who everyone's favorite architect(s) from 2 categories: dead and alive.

Here are mine:
Dead: Sullivan, Root, van der Rohe... there are SO many great architects that I can think of right now, but I'll just put these three great Chicago architects for now.

Living: Calatrava, Foster... there're some more here and there.

[Exodus]

Dead: Albert Kahn

Alive: Who ever designed the Comerica Tower or the Madden Bldg./150 W.Jefferson.

[giantSwan]

Dead: Frank Furness

Alive: Cesar Pelli

[cur_sed]

I'm not exactly well versed in the field, but I've gotta go with Norman Foster - I love the way he creates public, open spaces in buildings, as well as the sense of scale to his projects. The environmentally responsible designs he tends to turn out are also a big plus. I'm especially a fan of HSBC in Hong Kong and the HK International Airport, and of course 30 St Mary Axe and the Hearst Tower.

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Exodus

Dead: Albert Kahn

Alive: Who ever designed the Comerica Tower or the Madden Bldg./150 W.Jefferson.

Phillip Johnson did the Comerica Tower. I don't know anything about the Madden Building except that it too is 80's/90's post-modern.

[wheelscomp]

Alive: Robert A. M. Stern hands down

[wheelscomp]

Tribeca Park... Drool

[Tom Servo]

About Pelli.
IMO, there's something weird about Pelli. Before 2000 I can't think of anything that he did that I like or I think is worth much. After 2000 I like almost everything he's done; Costanera Center is a really great design (at least on paper).

[alps]

A few of my favourites would be Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, and Arthur Erickson.

I saw Hearst Tower when I was in NY this year, I was kicking myself afterwards for not going inside.

[hackunion]

Odile Decq, Rem Koolhaas, Shigeru Ban, John Patkau, Toyo Ito.
Some dead ones; Le Corbusier, Mies, Buckminster Fuller, Aalto, Niemeyer.

[Xelebes]

I have no goddamn clue, to be honest.

These are the only architects I know: Christopher Wren, Buckminster Fuller and that van der Mies character.

[MolsonExport]

I M Pei
Sullivan
W. Van Allen
Foster

[skyscraper]

Originally Posted by Xelebes

Buckminster Fuller .

Fuller was not an architect per se, more of an engineer.

Originally Posted by Xelebes

and that van der Mies character.

That would be Mies van der Rohe.

[DecoJim]

It is extremely difficult to pick just one dead architect:

A. Dead: Albert Kahn. A pragmatist who never consciously tried to make a personal artistic statement but yet nevertheless influenced the modernist movement through his reinforced concrete factory designs.

Runners up:
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
Wirt Rowland
Cass Gilbert
Minoru Yamasaki
Imhotep (circa 2600 BC)

B. Alive: Cesar Peli

Runners up:
Michael Graves (I considered him not because I like his work specifically but because he helped put an end to the inferior copying of the modernist glass box).

[The Chemist]

I don't know enough about architects to pick a dead one, but my favourite living one is without a doubt Norman Foster. I love all of his work.

[DetroitSky]

Albert Kahn and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls.

[ammiel_23_7]

SOM, Cesar Pelli, Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Santiago Calatrava, and David Childs.

[Tom Servo]

SOM? wow...

[MistyMountainHop]

Norman Foster and Bing Thom

[NorthScottsdale]

I dont know too many architects other than some local ones here in phoenix, but my favorite all time dead architect would have to be Frank Lloyd Wright. Heres a picture of the Arizona Biltmore resort and spa that he designed.. he is very well known here in arizona and has numerous masterpieces



another local architect that is alive and kicking out some bomb ass architecture is Will Bruder. Here is a pic of Loloma 5 in scottsdale, condos..