I’m going to be studying architecture and I am interested in studying architects. I’ve been reading magazines and history and whatnot but I’m not sure what major architects I should study up on….Any suggestions?
Does anyone have a list of architects and designers a freshman majoring in architecture should study?
December 1st, 2010 
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Hi
First of all: hope you enjoy the studies.
Are you more interested in buildings or landscapes? Why I ask is that Landscape Architecture is a whole field in itself,
and the list of significant practitioners could be quite different to those focussing on/who focussed on buildings during their career. I’m not an architect by training myself, but in the heritage management/museum business, so buildings and their environs are very important, and so I’ve kept and keep a general interest in them.
Here a few international names to start with, then just keep looking and asking people (especially when you get to do fieldwork, work placements) as you progress through the course:
Joern Utzon (Sydney Opera House),
Renzo Piano (Tjibaou Cultural Centre – New Caledonia),
I M Pei (the glass pyramid at Louvre),
Antonio Gaudi (Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona), Louis Kahn (Salk Institute building; check out the 2004 film by his son Nathaniel Kahn ”My Father the Architect),
Julia Morgan (William Hearst’s castle)
Francis Greenway: convict-turned-architect in early nineteenth-century colonial Australia
Norman Foster -the ‘giant gherkin’ in London, a major HSBC office tower, the new Hong Kong airport among others
Try scanning a general biographical -info site for finding more architects and designers: http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/Famous_Architects.htm
Hope that helps.
‘molonglo guy’