Who is the Greatest Architect of Modern Times?

[Tim Chakravorty]

William H. Gates III

He is the CSA (Chief Software Architect ) at Microsoft.

[Tim Chakravorty]

In fact, I will go further to say its Karl C. Rove. He was the Chief Architect of Bush's ' 04 victory.

Like him or not, he has won Bush two completely unwinnable elections.

[tim atherton]

Hmmm - who was/is the greatest architect of modern times - that's a bit like trying to figure who is the greatest photogorpaher (actually, thats easy, Atget B&W, Eggleston colour... ;-) )

In terms of the infuence they had, inthat they changed things for those that came afterwards, that people had to consider new ways of designing as a result of their work/theories - probably Corbusier, Wright, Mies, maybe Gehry

Whose do I like? Some of the above and certainly Piano and also Calatrava

Who would I want to design my house? probably Carlo Scarpa - or at least my mausoleum...

or maybe Zumthor

[Jeff Moore]

Howard Roark. :-)

[David E. Rose]

Louis I. Kahn

[Scott Fleming]

Frank,

Yes, well, ....... to each his own.

Personally I think *I* have designed the perfect house. Probably never get built. But I have to give FLW credit for my love of the open floor plan. I don't think I would have gotten there on my own.

I became acquainted with FLW when I visited his Taliesen West outside of Phoenix. In those days one of his tired old mistresses was still flogging the legend. (The old girl had class though and flanked by all those young wannabees in tux {they had a formal dinner every Friday night} she looked really good). All I saw were those fabulous walls resurrected right up from the desert with a little concrete, rocks and some ingenuity. The man was born to create. Yes his ego got ahead of his intellect on many occasions but the two go hand in hand.

I am unfamiliar with leaking roofs and his designs. I would think that was a mechanical problem assignable to a contractor rather than the architect or attributable to his being a bit ahead of his time. They have the most wonderful new materials for composite roofing these days. Hot tar is a thing of the past.

[Chad Jarvis]

J. Robert Oppenheimer.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Arthur Erickson

[william_3670]

I.M.Pei , Allen Buchsbaum , Jamie Vasquez

[Richard Boulware]

Eero Saarinen....no contest. St. Louis Arch, TWA Terminal JFK, etc.