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

Max Abramovitz
Robert Adam

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Leone Battista Alberti

Max Abramovitz
b. 5-23-1908; Chicago, IL
d. 9-12-2004; New York

Max Abramovitz notable works are the United Nations headquarters, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center and buildings at the University of Illinois, Radcliffe, Brandeis, Columbia Law School and the University of Pittsburgh.

Abramovitz was partner with Wallace K. Harrison.

Robert Adam
b. 7-3-1728; Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
d. 3-3-1792; London

Robert Adam, a member of a family of architects, developed the “Adams Style” of neoclassical interior design and architecture.

Robert Adam and his brothers John and James, were early advocates of interiors integrated with the architecture. Their style became known as Federalist in post Revolutionary War United States.

Notable structures designed by Robert Adam include the Pulteney Bridge over the River Avon in Bath and Culzean Castle in Scotland.

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
c. 63 BC - 12 BC, Roman Empire

Agrippa, a Roman general, statesman, and geographer, is also noted as improving the civic infrastructure of Rome which included aquaduct and the sewer system repairs, and the first Pantheon (pan = all + theon = gods) which was destroyed by fire in 80 AD.

• Augustan Rome
• The Roman Empire, Ancient Civilizations poster

Leon Battista Alberti
b. 2-18-1404; Genoa, Italy
d. 4-25-1472; Rome

Leon Battista Alberti was a humanist polymath, accomplished not only as an architect but also as an author, artist, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer.

Alberti's On the Art of Building (De re aedificatoria, 1450), a classic architectural treatise, was the first modern theoretical book on architecture and the first printed book on architecture (1485), moving away from the Gothic sensibilites to the Renaissance.

Alberti quotes ~
• “To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting, ... I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.”
• “When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truely I seem to be living among the gods.”
• “Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.”
• “There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. ”
• “A man can do all things if he but wills them.”

• On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti

Apollodorus of Damascus
fl. 2nd century AD

Appollodorus of Damascus was an architect and engineer who is credited with Trajan's Column in Rome, commemorating the Emperor Trajan and his victory in the Dacian Wars.

The monument, completed in 113 AD, is a freestanding column famous for its spiral bas relief and speculation that the column served as a measuring stick for the construction of the surrounding forum.