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Jo Coenen
Jo Coenen (born 30 September 1949 in Heerlen) is a Dutch architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (graduating in 1975), and later held professorships at TU Karlsruhe, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. Between 2000 and 2004 Coenen was Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands (''Rijksbouwmeester''). In 1995 he won the BNA Kubus award. He is an honorary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). Work Coenen's professional career started off with relatively small scale architectural projects, the majority of which were in the south of the Netherlands. This includes the public library in Heerlen (1983-1986), the city hall of Delft (1984-1986) and a bank in Venlo (1984-1987). His reputation began to grow with larger scale urban design work, including the area around the Vaillantlaan in The Hague, the KSNM island in Amsterdam, the Céramique residential area in central Maastric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesteda Toren Eindhoven
The Vesteda tower is located in Eindhoven and was finished in 2006. At tall and 28 floors it is the fourth highest building in Eindhoven. It bears a resemblance to the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w .... In 2007 it was awarded the '' BNA Building of the Year plaque'' ( nl), by the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects ( nl). File:Vestedatoren, Vestdijk, Eindhoven.jpg File:Vestedatoren, Eindhoven - zijkant.jpg File:Vestedatoren Eindhoven.JPG File:Vesteda Toren Eindhoven.jpg Residential skyscrapers in the Netherlands Residential buildings completed in 2006 Towers in North Brabant Buildings and structures in Eindhoven {{Netherlands-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eindhoven
Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine. With a population of 246,443 (1 January 2024) on a territory of 88.92 km2,Statistieken gemeente Eindhoven AlleCijfers.nl it is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest outside the Randstad conurbation. Eindhoven was originally located at the confluence of the Dommel and the Gender (stream), Gender. A municipality since the 13th century, Eindhoven witnessed rapid growth starting in the 1900s by textile and tobacco industries. Two well-known companies, DA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriol Bohigas
Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola (20 December 1925 – 30 November 2021) was a Spanish architect and urban planner, known for his work in the modernization of Barcelona. Early life Bohigas was born in Barcelona, Spain, on 20 December 1925 in a Catalan bourgeois family. His father was the philologist and he studied at the Institut-Escola de la Generalitat. During the Civil War he moved to Olot, province of Girona, where he continued his high school studies. Bohigas graduated in architecture in 1951 from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona School of Architecture), where in 1963 he obtained the title of Doctor of Architecture. Career Bohigas was a critic of the architecture of his city and an advocate of modernity from as early as age 20. In 1950, the group "Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània" to which he belonged was condemned, as the censor considered that modern architecture was "leftist-separa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruz Y Ortiz
Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos is an architectural studio founded by Antonio Cruz Villalón and Antonio Ortiz García. The studio have offices in Seville and in Amsterdam. Biography Architect Antonio Cruz Villalón was born in Seville, Spain, in 1948, and graduated from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1971. He is a member of the Andalusian Architects' Association (Num. 953). Antonio Ortiz was born in Seville in 1947, and graduated from the same university in 1974. He is a member of the Andalusian Architects' Association (num. 1206). After graduating, he worked with Ricardo Aroca and Rafael Moneo. From 1974 they taught at the ''Escuela de Arquitectura'', Seville. They also taught at prestigious institutions around the world, such as Eidgenössische Technische Houchschule (ETH) in Zurich and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Work *1973–1976 Housing project at C/ Doña María Coronel, Seville. Spain *1977–1980 Housing project at C/ Lumbreras, Seville. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement. He was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture. Early life He was born in Milan, Italy. After early education by the Somascan Religious Order and then at Alessandro Volta College in Lecco in 1949, he went to the school of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. His thesis advisor was Piero Portaluppi and he graduated in 1958. In 1955, he had started writing for, and from 1959 was one of the editors of, the architectural magazine Casabella-Continuità, with the editor in chief Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Rossi left in 1964 when the chief editorship went to Gian Antonio Bernasconi. Rossi went on to work for Società magazine and Il_contemporaneo, making him one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Snozzi
Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect, born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano. Life He studied at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked in association with architect Livio Vacchini. From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor and in 1985 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Snozzi was a professor of the University of Sassari, at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, Sardinia. Snozzi died in Minusio on 29 December 2020, at the age of 88, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. Literature * Samuel Penn (ed.): Accounts. Pelinu Books, Bucharest 2019 with contribut ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in Mendrisio, Ticino on 1 April 1943. At age fifteen, Botta dropped out of secondary school and apprenticed with the architectural firm of Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano. After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional degree in 1969. During his time in Venice, Botta got to meet and work with the architects: Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Mario Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in 1970. Career Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino, at age 16. He graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia (1969). While the arrangement of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo of what would become his stark, strong, towering style. His designs tend to include a strong sense of geome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Kieckens
Christian Kieckens (24 January 1951 – 11 May 2020) was a Belgian architect and also photographer and lecturer. Kieckens was born in Aalst. In 1974 he graduated from the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Ghent. He won de Godecharleprijs for Architecture (1981) and the for Architecture (1999). From 2002 he had his own company, Christian Kieckens Architects, based in Brussels. He also taught at the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. He died in Brussels. Works * Students' center Maastricht * Students' center Tilburg * Bridge in Bruges * Kortrijk Xpo * Crematorium Zemst * Publisher Sanderus, Oudenaarde Oudenaarde (; ; in English sometimes ''Oudenarde'') is a Belgium, Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of East Flanders. The municipality ... (''"indrukken uitdrukken"'') * Architect museum References External links Christian Kieckens Architects Belgian arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Van Reeth
Bob Van Reeth (Temse, 26 February 1943), who usually signs as bOb Van Reeth, is a Belgian architect. Biography Bob Van Reeth started working as an architect in 1965 with designing buildings in Mechelen and Kalmthout. In 1972, he became a teacher at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Bouwkunst (The National Higher Institute for Architecture) in Antwerp. The same year, he started the group Krokus with Jean-Paul Laenen and Marcel Smets. The group worked on the restoration of the old centre of Mechelen. In the 1980s, Van Reeth designed a new building for the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp. Later buildings include in 2007 a new wing for the Westvleteren Abbey, and the black-and-white Huis Van Roosmalen facing the Scheldt in Antwerp. Close by stands the Zuiderterras, a grand café on the quay. He also leads the company AWG (Architect Work Group) Architecten, which won the architectural concours for the design of a memorial and documentation centre about the Holocaust T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vandenhove
Charles, Knight Vandenhove (3 July 1927, Teuven – 22 January 2019, Liège) was one of the leading Belgians, Belgian architects of the 20th century. His company ''Charles Vandenhove et associés'' is based in Liège, Belgium. He is mostly known for his work in Belgium, the Netherlands and Paris ranging from the 1950s to the 2010s. Biography Vandenhove graduated in 1945 from the Liège university of applied sciences ''ESA Saint-Luc Liège, Saint-Luc'' and in 1951 from the university of applied sciences for architecture ''La Cambre'' in City of Brussels, Brussels. Vandenhove became famous with his design for the university campus ''Sart-Tilman'' (Liège Science Park) of the University of Liège in the 1970s. He demonstrated with his project Cour Saint-Antoine in the inner city of Liège that modern functional concepts can be merged with a respect for the historical fabric of the old city. Since the 1990s, Vandenhove was mostly active in the Netherlands. Many of the homes desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diener & Diener
Diener & Diener is an architectural firm established in Basel, Switzerland in 1942. The second generation of Diener & Diener has been active since 1980. The Basel office, along with its subsidiary in Berlin, has been headed by Roger Diener, since 2011, together with Terese Erngaard, Andreas Rüedi, and Michael Roth. History Roger Diener studied at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and later returned as a professor. He is one of the co-founders of Studio Basel, a practice-based architectural education outpost of ETHZ. Diener has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the School of Architecture in Vienna, Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Roger Diener has been a board member of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Berlin, 2005 – 2013, and member of the Swiss Federal Commission of historic monuments, 2013 – Awards: 2002 – Grande Méda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Albert
Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters * Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, Duke of Lotharingia and saint * Bruno (bishop of Verden) (920–976), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Gregory V (c. 972–999), born Bruno of Carinthia * Bruno of Querfurt (c. 974–1009), Christian missionary bishop, martyr and saint * Bruno of Augsburg (c. 992–1029), Bishop of Augsburg * Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) (1005–1045), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Leo IX (1002–1054), born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg * Bruno II of Brunswick, Bruno II (1024–1057), Frisian count or margrave * Bruno the Saxon (fl. 2nd half of the 11th century), historian * Saint Bruno of Cologne (d. 1101), founder of the Carthusians * Bruno (bishop of Segni) (c. 1045–1123), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and saint * Bruno (archbishop of Trier) (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
