le-corbusier-golden-section-and-modular-theory

golden-section.jpgLe Corbusier is one of the architect maestro to the modern architecture. He tends to contribute in community live improvement to provide better living conditions. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, and modern furniture designer. Le Corbusier expanded and reformulated his ideas on urbanism. Read more

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kenzo-tange-and-his-high-tech-masterpieces

kenzotangedesign.jpgkenzo_tange.jpgProfessor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction’s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1st place in design competition), Summer Olympics stadium complex in Tokyo, which the design is like a stringray fish form (Pritzker Prize citation as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”), Tokyo Cathedral of Saint Mary, and Tokyo Master Plan, which concept to re designed the Tokyo city, OUB Center, OUB Plaza in Singapore, also master plan to re-designed the Plaza Place d’Italie, in Read more

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renzo-piano-the-structure-maestro

renzomasterpieces.jpgrenzopiano.jpgRenzo Piano is an absolute master of art, master of light and lightness. Renzo is a maestro architect. He understands well about construction, structures and the scale of pieces. Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Milan, in 14th of September 1937, where he also had Building Workshop there. Renzo Piano was bom into a family of builders in Genoa, Italy in 1937. His grandfather, his father, four uncles and brother were all contractors and Renzo Piano admits, Renzo Piano should have been one too, but Read more

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roger-trancik-and-urban-spatial-design-theory

roger_trancik01.jpgProfessor Roger Trancik is an urban designer and landscape architect. Trancik known as a professor in several studies, such as Cornell University, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning Harvard University, Associate Professor of Urban Design 150th Anniversary Professor of Urban Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden Professor-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Rome Program in Architecture and Urbanism Visiting Professor, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Read more

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gordon-cullen-and-the-concice-townscape-theory

Gordon Cullen (1914-1994) was a mastro architect. Gordon Cullen was an English architect,. an urban designer who carried on the of the Townscape movement theme. Later on he wrote and published the “Townscape” book in 1961. He was a key motivator and activist in the Read more

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