Norman Robert Foster also known as Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank

Born on June 1, 1935, at Manchester, England

86 years old

✓Address:

Riverside, 22 Hester Road London, SW11

✓Education:

University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning (1956-1961)

Yale School of Architecture (1961-1962)

✓ British architect known for his sleek modern buildings made of steel and glass.

✓ Achievements:

21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999

American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture Awardee in 1994

Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1983

Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 1991

Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1990

Life Peerage for becoming The Lord Foster of Thames Bank

✓Dictum

""As an Architect, you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is
essentially unknown"

✓MILLENNIUM BRIDGE

The Millennium Bridge arises from a creative collaboration between architecture, art and engineering. It
was develope jointly by Ar. Norman Foster, with sculptor Anthony Caro and engineers Arup, the order
was the result of an international competition. This is the only pedestrian bridge in London and the first
new crossing in this area of the River Thames in over a century. It's one of the most striking of the
Thames bridges, and definitely a winner. The Millennium Bridge was the result of a 1996 competition
held by Southwark Council in conjunction with the Financial Times and the Royal Institute of British
Architects.

✓The main materials used in its construction are concrete, steel and aluminum.  
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (2000)

Born on November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

78 years old

✓Education

Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1968 - 1972)

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1972 - 1975)

✓Achievements

Pritzker Prize (2000)

Praemium Imperiale (2003)

Royal Gold Medal (2004)

Leone d'oro alla carriera (2010)

Rolf Schock Prize (2022)

✓Dictum

"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy
between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."

✓CASA DA MÚSICA (House of Music)

One of Porto’s leading cultural venues, designed by the architect, Rem Koolhaas. The building, with its
bold architecture, is designed to host all types of music – from classical to electronic, jazz to fado, major
international productions to small-scale experimental projects. The site prides itself on the quality of its
infrastructures and its dynamic, innovative and prestigious programming.

✓The Casa da Musica is designed to create relationship between the concert hall and the public inside
and outside the building

✓The principal materials used for the building are white concrete, travertine, corrugated glass,
aluminium and plywood

ZAHA HADID 2004

Dame Zaha Hadid,

born on October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became the first
woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

✓Education

American University in Beirut in the field of mathematics

Architectural Association in London 1972-1977

✓ Achievements:

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2003)

Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004)

Stirling Prize (2011,2010)

Structural Steel Design Awards (2010)

Glamour Award for The Architect-In-Chief (2012)

✓Dictum

"You have to really believe not only in yourself , you have to believe that the world is actually worth
your sacrifices"

✓ CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER

The Contemporary Arts Center is a forum for the exchange of ideas and a gathering place for people of
all cultures and ages. It presents an ever-changing menu of visual and performing arts that feeds the
cultural vitality of Cincinnati. The architecture of the new Contemporary Arts Center building redefines
the boundaries between art and life in various ways. The building itself is as original and enigmatic as a
piece of abstract or conceptual art. Like a work of art, it has its own strong formal logic. In this case, the
formal logic informs the spatial logic of a piece of civic life.

PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA (2006)

Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha,

Born on October 25, 1928 in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

A Brazilian architect known for bringing a Modernist sensibility to the architecture of his native country.
Mendes de Rocha’s work is best known for his daring and elegant pieces of concrete and steel. He was
awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2006, becoming the second Brazilian (after Oscar Niemeyer) to receive the
honour.

✓Education

Mackenzie University (1954-1958)

✓ Achievements:

2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize

2016 Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in architecture at the Venice Biennale

2016 Præmium Imperiale for Architecture

2017 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

✓Dictum

“The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.”

ST. PETER CHAPEL

The Chapel of Saint Peter (or Capela São Pedro Apóstolo) is a concrete chapel flanked in glass and stone
located near Boa Vista Palace—which was once the winter residence of the governor of São Paulo. The
interior spaces are focused around a single, concrete column that anchors the center. The two-story
glass façade and takes advantage of the views provided by the highest city in Brazil.

✓Materials used:

Concrete and Glass

GLENN MURCUTT (2002)

Glenn Marcus Murcutt

Born on July 25, 1936 in London, England

An Australian Architect who was noted for designing innovative climate-sensitive private houses. He was
awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2002.

✓Education

University of New South Wales Technical College in 1961

✓ Achievements:

Alvar Aalto Medal Finland (1992)

Richard Neutra Award USA (1998)

'Green Pin' International Award for Architecture and Ecology Denmark (1999)

Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award (2001)

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts International Award (2002)

✓Dictum

"touch the earth lightly"

BEROWRA WATERS INN

Originally, Berowra Waters Inn was a guest house dating to the 1930s CE. Between 1976 and 1983, the
architect Glenn Murcutt redesigned the property using a "distinctive Australian vernacular style:
corrugated tin roof over glass louvre windows, on a Sydney sandstone base, set among eucalypts and
angophoras". It is an emblematic of Australia, in it's location, architecture, wine and food.