This document presents information on five modern architects: Alejandro Aravena, Vo Trong Nghia, Emmanuel Miñana, Santiago Calatrava, and Daniel Libeskind. It provides biographical details and descriptions of their architectural philosophies and styles. It highlights some of their most famous works, including Aravena's Quinta Monroy social housing project in Chile, Vo Trong Nghia's bamboo structures in Vietnam, Miñana's Tantoco home in the Philippines, Calatrava's train stations and bridges, and Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin and other cultural buildings. The document cites their various accomplishments and influences.
1. THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2
FIVE MODERN
ARCHITECTS
PRESENTED BY:
PATRICIA D. AGUILERA
BS ARCH 2-3
ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
VO THRONG NGHIA
EMMANUEL MIÑANA
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
DANIEL LIBESKIND
3. ALEJANDRO
ARAVENA
• born in 1967
• a Chilean
architect graduated
from the Pontifical
Catholic University
of Chile in 1992
• He established
the Alejandro
Aravena Architects
in 1994
• won the Pritzker
Architecture Prize
in 2016.
4. ALEJANDRO
ARAVENA
• He is also the
director and
curator of the
Architecture
Section of the
Venice Biennale
2016
• was a member of
the Pritzker Prize
Jury from 2009 to
2015, and is an
International
Fellow of the
Royal Institute of
British Architects
5. • Was a columnist (1997-1996) in
Supplement "Housing and Decoration "
the newspaper El Mercurio , Chile 's
most prestigious newspaper, on issues
of city and architecture.
• 1998 Jury in the Contemporary Art
Museum Competition , Valdivia, Chile.
• 2002 Permanent member of the
Regional Advisory Committee of the
David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Since 2006 he is the
Executive Director of
ELEMENTAL SA, an
organization for profit and
social interests that works
on projects of
infrastructure, transport,
public space and housing
associated with the Catholic
University of Chile and
Empresa Petrolera COPEC.
6. PHILOSOPHY
“Bring the community into the
process
So the purpose of design, trying to
understand and trying to give an
answer to the "3S" menace, scale,
speed, and scarcity, is to channel
people's own building capacity. We
won't solve the one million people per
week equation unless we use people's
own power for building. So, with the
right design, slums and favelas may
not be the problem but actually the
only possible solution. The second
case is how design can contribute to
sustainability.” – Alejandro Aravena TED
2014
12. VO TRONG NGHIA
• A VIETNAMESE ARCHITECT
BORN IN 1976 IN QUANG BINH
PROVINCE.
• VO TRONG NGHIA STUDIED
ARCHITECTURE AT THE NAGOYA
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO,
EARNING HIS MA.
• BACK IN VIETNAM HE
ESTABLISHED VO TRONG NGHIA
ARCHITECTS IN 2006.
• VO TRONG NGHIA’S BUILDINGS
SET THEMSELVES AGAINST THE
IDEA OF THE CITY AS A
‘CONCRETE JUNGLE’. HE USES
LOW-COST, SUSTAINABLE
MATERIALS AND NATURAL
ELEMENTS LIKE WATER AND
PLANTS TO CREATE A TRULY
GREEN URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
13. • WORLD ARCHITECTURE
FESTIVAL 2014 - WINNER OF
"HOUSE", "HOTEL & LEISURE"
AND "EDUCATION FUTURE
PROJECTS" CATEGORIES
• ARCASIA BUILDING OF THE
YEAR 2014
• WAN 21 FOR 21 AWARDS
2012
• VIETNAMESE ARCHITECT OF
THE YEAR 2012
AWARDS
NHIA AND GREEN
ARCHITECTURE
• HE BEGAN WORKING WITH
GREEN ARCHITECTURE WHEN
HIS JAPANESE PROFESSORS
SUGGESTED DESIGNING
CONSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE
SUITED TO LOCAL
CONDITIONS – THE
CLIMATE AND THE PEOPLE.
14. “GREEN ARCHITECTURE IS A WAY OF LIFE.”
- ARCHITECT VO TRONG NGHIA
VO TRONG NGHIA IS AT THE FOREFRONT
PROPAGATING BAMBOO AS A CHIEF BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION. HE CALLS IT THE “GREEN
STEEL OF THE 21ST CENTURY”.
PHILOSOPHY:
20. EMMANUEL MIÑANA
• Studied
at University of the
Philippines Diliman
• Married to Denise
M. Weldon
• the first Filipino
architect to be
shortlisted in the
prestigious World
Architecture
Festival held in
Singapore.
• Harvard University
Graduate school of
design june – july
1996
21. Architect Manny Miñana takes on
Tropical Modern. He artfully
combines vernacular styles and
responses to climate and site with a
modern architectural vocabulary.
EMMANUEL A. MINANA & ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS
(EAMA)
• formed in 1990 when, for its first project, it
was commmisioned to do the private residence of a
Pilipino popstar. Many Years laters, it has
become a boutique design firm with architecture
and interior projects in the Philippines, as well
as in saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia and hong
kong.
22. PHILOSOPHY:
“Architecture is a spatial
composition of positive and
negative spaces that coexist with
transparent, translucent and opaque
spatial masses. Through this
functional and aesthetic interplay
of spatial form. Throught this
functional and aesthetic interplay
of spatial form, architecture is
serendipitously imbued with the
qualities of the spirit –
anticipation, surprise, delight,
joy and inspiration. Through the
timelessness of Nature and the
unique expression of light, shadow,
color scale, proportion, movement
and principal materials of our age,
the human scale is allowed to
experience a refreshing range of
human perceptions whilst forgetting
the confines of finite space.”
- Architect Manny Miñana
25. SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
• BORN ON JULY 28, 1951 IN A
TOWN OF BENIMAMET, NEAR
VALENCIA, SPAIN.
• FROM THE AGE OF 8, HE ALSO
ATTENDED THE ARTS AND CRAFTS
SCHOOL,
• AT 13 HE WAS AN EXCHANGE
STUDENT IN FRANCE AND TRAVELED
TO STUDY IN SWITZERLAND.
• HE EARNED A DEGREE IN
ARCHITECTURE AND TOOK A POST-
GRADUATE COURSE IN URBANISM.
• BEING ATTRACTED BY
MATHEMATICS, CALATRAVA DECIDED
TO PURSUE POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, SO HE WAS
ENROLLED IN THE FEDERAL
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND IN 1975.
• HE RECEIVED HIS DOCTOR RATE IN
1979, DURING THAT PERIOD HE MET
AND MARRIED HIS WIFE, WHO WAS A
LAW STUDENT IN ZURICH.
26. A R C H I T E C T
A R T I S T
E N G I N E E R
Santiago calatrava is a man of his
time; an architect of public space, who
has total conscience of the political
and social function as well as the
aesthetics of it. He is a ‘monumental’
architect. This comes out of the result
exactly because he knows what public
space and modernism means.
-evangelos venizelos
Minister of culture
Calatrava is not just an architect, he
is an engineer and an artist a homo
universalize of the 21st century.
-dimitrios pantermalis
professor of classical archaeology
27. He believes that geometry
is fundamental to
understand architecture,
and he approaches his work
through geometry.
Guided by the saying
"nature is both, mother and
teacher “. This saying has
guided all my work. He says
" there are many lessons
one can draw from nature,
real guiding rules and
metaphors from observing
plants and animals ”.
PHILOSOPHY :
28. MATERIALS AND THE WAY THEY ARE PROCESSED ARE EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT FOR DESIGN. HE SAYS " CONCRETE, ALTHOUGH AN
INEXPENSIVE MATERIAL, WHEN DEALT WITH IMAGINATIVELY CAN
MAKE BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS. IT IS, HOWEVER, A DIFFICULT
MATERIAL AND REQUIRES A GREAT DEAL OF EXPERTISE.
29. • Santiago Calatrava exemplifies
sculptural expression and
engineering through architecture.
Calatrava’s work is like music:
well orchestrated
• Although his buildings were known
for their aesthetics,
they never compromised on the
grounds of functionality
• built energy efficient structures
• The fact that much of his work is
centred around
water which adds a further
dimension to his work.
A P P R A I S A L :
30. • Often criticized for
impracticality
• the mechanical
instability of the
structure and the
excessive weight of
the bridge
• Economy
• The train station
Gare do Oriente in
Lisbon is known for
being very
uncomfortable,
especially with wind
and rainy weather.
C R I T I C I S M :
GARE DO ORIENTE
STATION
36. DANIEL LIBESKIND
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12,
1946)
isa PolishAmerican architect, ar
tist, professor and set
designer
founded Studio Daniel Libeskind
in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and
is its principal design
architect.
Libeskind's work has been
exhibited in major museums and
galleries around the world,
including the Museum of Modern
Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the
Art Institute of Chicago, and
the Centre Pompidou.
Began his career as an
architectural theorist and
professor.
The Jewish Museum Berlin,
completed in 1999, was
Libeskind's first major
international success and was
one of the first buildings
designed after reunification.
37. • Libeskind was a musical
virtuoso as a child,
even winning a highly
coveted America-Israel
Cultural Foundation
scholarship.
• As a young adult, he
shifted his focus to
architecture and earned
his architecture degree
from the Cooper Union
for the Advancement of
Science and Art in New
York City in 1970 and
his postgraduate degree
in History and Theory of
Architecture at the
School of Comparative
Studies at Essex
University in England
two years later.
38. “HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO DESIGN?
My design philosophy is based in my view that
architecture itself is communicative. Each of my
buildings tells a unique and particular story
reflecting both the programmatic content and the
singularity of the site. Fundamental to my thinking
and motivation is that buildings and urban projects
are crafted with perceptible human energy and that
they speak to the larger cultural community in which
they are built.”
-DANIEL LIBENSKIND
PHILOSOPHY: