Famous Architects Posters & Prints “S...-”
for art, art history and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and offices.

Eero Saarinen
Friedrich Schinkel
Senemut
Sebastiano Serlio

Sinan
Paolo Solari
Gustav Stickley
Rudolf Steiner

Eero Saarinen
b. 8-20-1910; Kirkkonummi, Finland
d. 9-1-1961; Ann Arbor, MI

Eero Saarinen was the son of Eliel Saarinen, noted architect and designer at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

Eero was also an architect and furniture designer, adapting his modern styles - sweeping and arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism - to meet the needs of client's intended use.

One of Saarinen's most recognizable designs is the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
b. 3-13-1781; Neuruppin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
d. 10-9-1841; Berlin

German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel was also a notable painter, stage designer, as well as the designer of the “Iron Cross”.

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man
• perspective posters

Senemut
Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1292 BC), Ancient Egypt

Senemut was an architect and government official whose masterpiece building project, the Mortuary Temple complex of Hatshepsut on the West Bank of the Nile, close to the entrance to the Valley of the Kings, is considered to be among the great buildings of the ancient world.

The focal point, a colonnaded structure of perfect harmony built into a cliff face nearly one thousand years before the Parthenon, sits atop a series of terraces that once were graced with gardens.

• Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahari

Sebastiano Serlio
b. 9-6-1475; Italy
d. c. 1554; Lyon, France (?)

Sebastiano Serlio was a Mannerist style architect and stage set designer, as well as a civil engineer of fortifications.

Serlio most significant contribution to architecture was the canonization of the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" (aka "Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospettiva") which included woodcuts of designs for stage settings in the section of his treatis devoted to perspective.

Serlio also consulted (with Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola) in the renovations of the medieval French Palace of Fontainebleau that was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the 16th century by François I, who wanted to make it a ‘New Rome’. Surrounded by an immense park, the Italianate palace combines Renaissance and French artistic traditions.

Atik Sinan
b. fl. 15th Century; Istanbul

Sinan is credited as the architect of Istanbul's the Fatih Mosque and its complex, for Mehmed II.

Legend reports that Sinan, a Christian Greek, had failed to make the dome of the the Fatih mosque bigger than Hagia Sofia, so Mehmed II amputated the hand of the architect. When Sinan complained, the city judge (kadhi) ruled what the sultan did was unjust and decreed that the architect could amputate the sultan's hand in return. When the sultan submit to the judge's order, Sinan was so astounded with Muslim justice that he converted to Islam and pardoned the sultan.

Paolo Soleri
b. 6-21-1919; Turin, Italy

Paolo Soleri founded the planned community for 5,000 called Arcosanti, Arizona. The project is a blend of architecture with ecology.

FYI - Soleri is influenced by paleontologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Gustav Stickley
b. 3-9-1858; Osceola, Wisconsin
d. 4-21-1942; NY

Gustav Stickley is most noted as the leader of the American Craftsman movement with his Craftsman Magazine. Together with architect Harvey Ellis, they produced plans for bunglow style homes and furniture.

Gustav's brothers Leopold (Lee), Albert, Charles and John George Stickley were also important figures in the Arts and Crafts movement.

Rudolf Steiner
b. 2-27-1861; Murakirály, Austria
d. 3-30-1925; Dornach, Switzerland

Rudolf Steiner, best remembered for his spiritual studies, designed seventeen buildings between 1908 and 1925. The first Goetheanum was intended as a Gesamtkunstwerk, the “synthesis of diverse artistic media and sensory effects, infused with spiritual significance”. When the building was destroyed by an arsonist Steiner designed a second Goetheanum of cast concrete.

Edward D. Stone
b. 3-9-1902; Fayetteville, AR
d. 8-6-1978; NYC

Edward D. Stone was involved in the designing of Radio City Music Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Perfoming Arts.

Abbot Suger
b. c. 1081; France
d. 1-15-1151

Suger, as the abbot or head of the monestary of Saint-Denis, was a statesman - historian involved in secular affairs which included the rebuilding of Saint-Denis in the new Gothic style of architecture.

• Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures

Louis Sullivan
b. 9-4-1856; Boston, MA
d. 4-14-1924; Chicago, IL

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler were the architects of the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY.

Themes of dark brick and terra cotta ornamentation dominate the building's exterior design.

• They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture