Category: Biography

Zaha Hadid is the first female Starchitect (Baghdad, 1950) who managed to explore every field of contemporary creativity in an incredible mix of research, design, planning, and communication. Her way of working was definitely innovative, ...

The American architect (1934, Newark) completed his studies in Europe. His reference points are Leon Battista Alberti’s Renaissance architecture, based on perfect geometry, and Le Corbusier’s architecture, rich in geometric volumes, contrasting elements and light ...

Giuseppe Valadier was a child prodigy in the architectural scene of Neoclassical Rome. His training is unusual, because even if he showed right away a great talent and a vocation for the architectural field, during ...

Here we are now with the article focused on the other protagonist of the Baroque Rome. In this period, in fact, we witness the irrepressible imposition of Gian Lorenzo Bernini over his rival Bernini. Bernini ...

In this website we talk about architecture, but behind the different currents, behind the styles, behind the works there are always the designers. And most of their work is nothing but, first of all, the ...

We already mentioned the rivalry between Bernini and Borromini, but now the time has come to deal a little more in detail with both these extraordinary architects’ personalities. We are going to start with Borromini, ...

Quando si pensa all’architettura razionalista italiana, c’è un nome che non può non venire subito alla mente: Giuseppe Terragni. Questo architetto, pur avendo vissuto relativamente poco (è morto a soli 39 anni), ha rappresentato una ...