An architect with an international practice, Zvi Hecker approaches architecture from strong conceptual symbolism. Using the shape of a ‘sunflower’ as impetus for such projects as the Jewish Primary School in Berlin (1991–1995) and the Sunflower of...

Giuseppe Terragni was a leader in the Italian rationalist movement in the early part of the twentieth century. With tremendous energy and devotion to architecture, he built a large repertoire of modernist constructions in his short life. His sketches used...

An innovative architect, Hiroshi Hara is known for his fanciful and emotive buildings. He often uses building materials to achieve unique effects, such as the cloud-like walls of the Tasaki Museum of Art. Hara was born in Kawasaki in 1936. He attended the...

Influenced by the classicism of Italy, Gunnar Asplund blended Swedish national romanticism with the geometric forms of early modernism (Wrede, 1980). His sketches and drawings display an integration of architecture with nature, a distinctive aspect of his...