Biographical Essay
Suggested architects include:
1. Frank Lloyd Wright
2. Le Corbusier
3. Antoni Gaudi
4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
5. Frank Gehry
6. Louis Henri Sullivan
7. Ieoh Ming Pei
8. Jean Novel
9. Bruce Goff
10. Oscar Niemeyer
11. Philip Johnson
12. Paul Rudolph
13. Alvar Aalto
14. Michael Graves
15. Charles & Ray Eames
16. Eero Saarinen
17. Walter Gropius
18. Zaha Hadid
19. Rem Koolhaas
20. Santiago Calatrava
21. Renzo Piano
22. Sir Norman Foster
23. Richard Meier
24. Daniel Libeskind
25. Louis Kahn
26. Alvaro Siza Vieira
27. Tadao Ando
28. Adolf Loos
29. Carlo Scarpa
30. Fumihiko Maki
31. Peter Eisenman
32. Lebbeus Woods
33. Marcel Breuer
34. Sean Godsell
35. Steven Holl
36. Richard Rogers
37. Bjarke Ingels
38. Thom Mayne
39. Bernard Tschumi
40. Jorn Oberg Utzon
41. Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
42. John Pawson
43. Samual “Sambo” Mockbee
44. Eric Owen Moss
45. Glenn Marcus Murcutt
46. Paulo Mendes da Rocha
47. Maya Lin
48. Ricardo Legorreta
49. John Edward Lautner
50. Coleman Coker
51. Mario Botta
52. Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
53. Euine Fay Jones
54. Greene and Greene
55. Jacques Herzog and Pierre
de Meuron
56. Coop Himmelblau
57. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
• Analyze the work of select architects and their contributions to the history of architecture.
• Evaluate multiple perspectives from varying sources regarding the work of your chosen architects.
• Explain the varieties of historical evidence used and assess the strengths and limitations of each.
• Analyze and interpret primary and secondary source material, distinguish between them, and place
them in context