Architecture: Researching Architects

To locate books about architects and design firms, search the Fordham Catalog using the architect's name or the firm's name as a subject.

Search the catalog using the following subject headings to locate additional biographical sources:

• architects --biography
• architects -- country/state of origin (i.e.: California) directories
• architects -- interviews
• architecture -- dictionaries
• women architects -- country/state of origin
• African American architects -- country/state of origin

To locate articles, consult the Avery Index

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The complete portfolio of Norman Foster's work over the 25 years between 1964 and 1989 can be found in QuinnX Library's Oversize Stacks - NA997.F65 N67 1989, 4 volumes...

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Christopher Wren is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.

In Wren's age, the profession of architect as understood today did not exist. Since the early years of the 17th century it was not unusual for well-educated young men (virtuosi) to take up architecture as a gentlemanly activity, a pursuit widely accepted as a branch of applied mathematics. This is implicit in the writings of Vitruvius and explicit in such 16th century authors as John Dee and Leonard Digges. When Wren was a student at Oxford, he became familiar with Vitruvius' De architectura and absorbed intuitively the fundamentals of architectural design. In English Medieval tradition, buildings had been constructed to the needs of the patron and the suggestions of building professionals, such as master carpenters or master bricklayers. (Quote via Wkipedia cited above)

Forty most famous architects of the 21st Centuty

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Juilliard / Alice Tully Hall @ Lincoln Center

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Architect:  Zaha Hadid   The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. By Robert Ghement/EPA/Corbis. 

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Architect: Carme Pinos - Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Architect: Farshid Moussavi -  FMA's winning proposal for the Jardins de Laronde Competition.

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Architect: Odile Decq      EDIFICIO H26 FIRENZE - ITALY

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Architect: Han Schroder - The Rietveld Schroder House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1924.  The home Han Schroder lived in with her mother, also a designer, which Han later restored and renovated.

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Architect: Eileen Gray  - La Villa E-1027,1929 masterpiece on France's Côte d’Azur. The house heavily influenced the work of Le Corbusier...

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Architect: Julia Morgan         Hearst Castle - San Simeon, California

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Architect: Francine Houben  / Library Delft University - Netherlands

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Senior Portrait c. 1935, Image 0003076 Courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives 

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Portrait of Marion Mahony Griffin.
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From The Invisible in Architecture, Roemer van Toorn

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