Modern architects

Modern architects


Introduction


Hi,
my name is Justyna, and I’d like to talk about contemporary architects today. In my presentation I will present a number of architects and their work. An architect is a person who creates the culture of the architectural design of buildings, plans and creates environment for satisfaction of people. This profession combines many areas of science and technology. That’s all for the introduction.

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Now, at the beginning of I would like to present Philip Johnson. He was an American architect and art historian, longtime doyen of American architecture, in 1979 as the first architect awarded the Pritzker Prize, which is the Nobel of architecture. His major works include is:

-municipal library in Boston,
-Kennedy memorial in Dallas
-Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove in California
-City Hall in Orlando-Celebration in Florida

Another architect presented is Ieoh Ming Pei is an American modernist and postmodernist architect of Chinese origin, he got Pritzker Prize. Pei taught in Hong Kong, at the age of 17, he left for the United States to study architecture. His major works of the architect are:
-John Hancock Tower in Boston
-Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong
-Museum of Islamic Art in Doha

Next architect is Richard Alan Meier is an American architect, contemporary white representative of the characteristics of postmodern and modernistic architecture. Pritzker Prize winner in a 1984. Meier designed almost exclusively for private investors residences, located in a natural context. Meier urban projects become even more contextual, also mark their presence strong form. The main his works are:
-Craft Museum in Frankfurt am Main
-Hall of the library in The Hague
-Museum of Burda in Baden-Baden

Another is an architect Oscar Niemeyer, this Brazilian architect was representative of the world of modernist architecture. He grew up in an artistic environment. In 1934 he graduated from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. The main his works are:
-Brazilian pavilion at the World Exhibition in New York
-restaurant and dance hall in the Casa do Baile Pampulha near Belo Horizonte
-National Stadium in Rio de Janeiro
-UN building in New York City
Eshkol-tower in Haifa




Conclusion:

I have presented several prominent architects, and showed some of their work.

Thank you for your attention




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