Profiles

We continue our deconstructivist architecture series with a profile of Daniel Libeskind who designed one of the movement’s most evocative buildings, the Jewish Museum Berlin. “You know, we shouldn’t be comfortable in this world,” Polish-American architect Libeskind once told an audience at an event at the Roca London Gallery. “I’m always surprised that people think

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Continuing our series revitising deconstructivist architecture, we profile Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, who designed the seminal Parc de la Villette in Paris. From a National Library surrounded by an athletics track to a series of giant inhabited bridges criss-crossing the city of Lausanne in his signature shade of red, Tschumi has always revelled in unexpected contrasts

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Continuing our series revitising deconstructivist architecture, we profile Peter Eisenman, the US architect behind the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. A legendary debate between architects Peter Eisenman and Christopher Alexander took place at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1982. While Alexander was advocating for human-centric architecture, Eisenman

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We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Michael and Patty Hopkins, who designed one of the movement’s most pragmatic buildings – Hopkins House – and went on to develop historicist high-tech architecture. High-tech architecture, a style that emerged in the UK in the late 1960s and saw the expression of structural elements, had many contradictions. It often

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Renzo Piano designed one of high-tech architecture’s seminal buildings – the Centre Pompidou. Continuing our high-tech architecture series we profile the Italian architect who was a key figure in the largely British-led movement. Piano would tell you that he doesn’t have a signature style, that he finds the idea of it inhibiting. He likes to treat every project as

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Anthony Hunt worked with architects Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Michael and Patty Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw to engineer some of high-tech’s greatest buildings. We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of the influential engineer. High-tech architecture’s pioneers had their stylistic differences, collaborations and contestations, but they can almost all be united by a

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We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Nicholas Grimshaw, who has stayed true to his tech-tech ideals over a career spanning more than 50 years. Nicholas Grimshaw is the details man of high-tech architecture, a style that emerged in the 1960s and emphasises and celebrates structural and circulation elements. His buildings tell the story

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We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at Norman Foster, the architect of high-tech highlights for five decades including Reliance Controls in the 1960s, the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970s, HSBC in the 1980s, Stanstead Airport in the 1990s and the Gherkin in the 2000s. For all its radical concepts and early experiments, high-tech architecture’s

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