Category Archives: Architect Profile
Glenn Murcutt – the man who touches the earth lightly
Born 25 July 1936, Glenn Murcutt is an important Australian architect. He studied architecture from 1956 to 1961 at The University of New South Wales and always had an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture. He is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale. Murcutt’s motto is “touch the earth lightly”; his highly economical and multi-functional [...]
Paolo Soleri – Mentor of all Archologists
Born in Turin, Italy on June 21, 1919, Soleri is an Italian-American visionary architect and a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He is widely known with the notion he created: archology, ie. architecture in line with ecology, explained in detail in [...]
Dr. Ken Yeang – The Man Who Greens The High-Rise
Dr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ecodesign, including “The Skyscraper: Bioclimatically Considered,” “The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable, Intensive Buildings,” [...]
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The Crystalline Skin for 2014 Winter Olympics