Who is the best architect in the History?

Answer 1

Le Corbusier. He understood people and understood classical design. His drawings and ideas were breathtaking if weird at times. He's one of the few architects that truly changed design.
Historically, Joseph Paxton and Palladio both created beautiful proportional architecture with beautiful spaces and structure. Christopher Wren, Brunelleschi's dome, Imhotep or whoever designed the egyptian pyramids...

it's impossible to choose, lots have different strengths, especially since 'modern' design has allowed architects to become household names... from the Eames, FLW, Saarinen, Neimeyer, Gropius, Herzog & De Meuron, Botta, Ando, Perrault, Aalto, Robert Adam, Lutyens, Speer, Breuer, Gaudi, Louis Kahn, Libeskind, Mackintosh, Van Alen, Smithsons, Piano, Eiffel...

Which is also a different argument to favourite, because that would be Herman Hertzberger or Rem Koolhaas for me, creators of the most human of buildings, ready for a new world and whatever the future has in store.

what am i saying! I'm the best architect :)

Answer 2

I don't know exactly; we can choose one for every History period, but I think the best Architect in the History is Bramante. He built San Pietro in Montorio, the Vatican palaces, and his ideas about classicism were on most popular architects after him, such as Michaelangelo, Palladio, Bernini, Wren... In Fact he was the Architect and who draw the firsts designs for the Vatican, and his drawings inspired Rafael's painting named The Academy (that with Plato and Aristotle), at the Vatican "stanze". It's great, isn't it?

The solution in the Vatican palaces (knonw as cortile belvedere) is a shell shape façade that explains all dinamic façades in european baroque architecture, and it's inspired on the ruins of Rome's thermae an basilica. I think he was incredible. Just look at the Head of Santa Maria delle Grazie, at Milan. There was problems to build the head of the temple and he used perspective to build it. If you look at the head it seems to be there, but it's just a wall with some lines on it!!! There's no architect as imaginative as him.

Answer 3

Christopher Wren is possibly the greatest of the pre-Industrialist architects. He is responsible for almost single handedly changing the face of London and the United Kingdom. St Paul's Cathedral is possibly the best known of his designs, but it his legacy of modernizing construction practices that has had the most influence.

Answer 4

the eygiptians, several attepts have been made to copy a pyramid only a small scale using modern machinery and it still cat be done as accuratly im told you cant pass a spark plug feeler guage between some of the stone work and it was cut by hand 5,000 years ago ps i agree with the lady who said brunel as being one of the greatest people to style the world we live in but i sorta got him down as an engineer and not architect

Answer 5

Frank Lloyd Wright Undoubtedly is one of the best architect in the History

Falling Water at Bearrun, Pennsylvania is a masterpiece far ahead of its time

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Answer 6

My Nigel not is bad at spelling but this is appalling and no-one has mentioned the architect and blues singer Indigo Jones.

Answer 7

The ones who designed and constructed the ancient monuments like the Panthenon in Greece and the Roman coliseum and the Taj Mahal and other such buildings.

Answer 8

Michelangelo-who designed St Peters in Rome.

Answer 9

Antoni Gaudi, inspired and beautiful buildings. Form and function.
Corbusier is the destroyer of modern architecture, don't go near him. Most of the opinions given here are just names off the top of peoples heads. Gaudi is the Modernista supreme!

Answer 10

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