It is very difficult to choose the best Architect, that because there are too many different styles and thoughts about Architecture. So, i will comment on a series of Architects that drawn my attention. The first one, and for many years my favourite, is Santiago Calatarava, this Spanish Architect separated from the rest for
his unique blend between architecture and engineering, thats because he is also an engineer, and the fact that he has this two carrers makes it possible for him to have a much better comprehension of the structure of his own works, adding this as part of the final design.
Another architect of great trajectory and impressive works is Rem Koolhaas. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO currently based in Rotterdam. His work emphatically embraces the contradictions of two disciplines (architecture and urban design) that have struggled to maintain their humanist ideals of material honesty, the human scale and carefully crafted meaning in a rapidly globalising world that espouses material economy, machine scale and random meaning. Another key aspect of architecture Koolhaas interrogates is the "Program": with the rise of modernism in the 20th century the "Program" became the key theme of architectural design. This architect is focused much more clearly to the theory of design, the design itself.
The last, but not least, is the Japanese Architect Tadao Ando, he is the only one who has received the five most important architectural awards, including the prizker. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
The last, but not least, is the Japanese Architect Tadao Ando, he is the only one who has received the five most important architectural awards, including the prizker. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
