I think we're all able to identify most or all of the big names if identified by last name. It's being able to identify people by first (or middle) names, or abbreviations of names that makes it count:
Mies
Corb
Toyo
etc....
Just my 2 Canadian pennies.
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One word architects
Seems sometimes when you reach the pinnacle of a profession you can be known by one name- Madonna, Prine, Bono, or god help us- W.
List architects-
Zaha.
Gehry.
Mies.
Ando.
continue.......
vado.
holthinshawpfaujones
GEIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIK-kS3y7EM
Richard.
richard rogers? meier? gluckman?
rem.
moneo.
corb.
Imhotep
^ oooh good one
Brad. Friends with Frank.
wright, but that is still wrong
I so want to name my kid Imhotep.
Missed Rem and Corb- great ones.
Zzzzzz. Wake me up when this thread dies in its own idol hole.
pooh
i agree with mdz but want to play anyway :)
thom
pete
wolf
loos
otto (wagner)
Phidias
VGo
Diotisalvi
Ictinos
Senenmut
PALLADIO
Michelangelo
Solari
Kahn
Rudolph
Aalto
tumbleweed, do your neighbors ever say?
"Please don't let Mies shit in my yard"
or do you say? "Mies, stop drinking out of the toilet!"
or, "Mies, stop humping (insert dinner guest's name here) leg under the dinner table!"
sorry, I am cracking myself up and could go on for hours.
Eero.
Eliel.
Fuller?
bucky
Richardson
Venturi
Gandelsonas
Agrest
Colomina
Neutra
Schindler
Niemeyer
Kallikrates
Danny
Ben
Sejima
Greg
Wolf
Bernard (or Bernie)
Stern
Jacques
Norman (or Normy)
Banksy
no, wait, he just paints on buildings...
Pizza
phil.
as in 'r.k. nixon'
Moss
to reinforce what tumbles said, the single names of architects are great names for pets. I have a rot/belgian shephard called Tschumi.
me
toyo
eisenman
toyo
liberskind
pei.
that "one" guy
brunelleschi
lebbeus
scarpa
Graves
probably the first... vitruvius
I think we're all able to identify most or all of the big names if identified by last name. It's being able to identify people by first (or middle) names, or abbreviations of names that makes it count:
Mies
Corb
Toyo
etc....
Just my 2 Canadian pennies.
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