18th May 1883 – 05th July 1969 “Limitation makes the creative mind inventive” – Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus School, the German School of Buildings One of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture Founder of a Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) Also, a leading architect in International style […]
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
08th June 1867 – 09th March 1959 “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization” – FLW FLW was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1000 structures over a creative period of 70 years He believed in designing in […]
ZAHA HADID
31st October 1950 – 31st March 2016 “I don’t think that architecture is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.” – Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was British Iraqi architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of […]
LE CORBUSIER
6th October 1887 – 27th August 1965 “A house is a machine for living in” – Le Corbusier Le Corbusier (also known as Charles Edouard Jeanneret) was a Swiss French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as Modern Architecture A founding member of the Congres […]
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON RAMNAVAMI
Ram Navami, the day when Lord Rama was born, holds a special place in Hindu culture. This day is marked by, people worshipping Lord Rama, even many people practice fasting in order to showcase their faith on Lord Rama. But, there is a section of people, who celebrate this day by clamoring ‘Shri Ram’, ‘Bhagwadhari’, […]
CHARLES CORREA
1ST September 1930 – 16TH June 2015 “Certainly, architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many – layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, material and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.” – Charles Correa Charles Mark Correa was an […]