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

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Francois Mansard
Charles Follen McKim
Michelangelo

Mies van der Rohe
Mnesicles
Rafael Moneo
Julia Morgan

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
b. 6-7-1868; Glasgow, Scotland
d. 12-10-1928

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Miss Cranston to design elements of her teahouses including the most popular Willow Tearooms (1903). Mackintosh, who was also an accomplished watercolorist, designed in the Arts and Crafts style inspired by John Ruskin; other Arts and Crafts designers included William Morris, Gustav Stickley, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Francois Mansart
b. 1-13-1598; Paris, France
d. 9-23-1666

Francois Mansart, noted for his introduction of classicism into French Baroque architecture, was trained as a stonemason and sculptor. The best known remaining example of his work is the Chateau de Maisons-Lafitte, built 1642-1651, displays the hallmarks of Baroque - theatrical sculpture to express the power of church and state.

Mansart popularized a particular type of hip roof that has two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope almost being a vertical wall; it is called a mansard roof.

Charles Follen McKim
b. 8-24-1847; Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
d. 9-14-1909

Charles Follen McKim was a prominent Beaux-Arts style architect in the late nineteenth century. He was a partner with Stanford White.

Michelangelo
b. 3-6-1475; Caprese, Tuscany
d. 2-18-1564; Rome

Much of Michelangelo's architectural work was on projects started by others, or on proposals that were not completed.

• more Michelangelo posters

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
b. 3-27-1886; Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany
d. 8-17-1969; Chicago, IL

Mies van der Rohe is most closely associated with Chicago, designed the Seagram Building, in collaboration with Philip Johnson, an office tower located in NYC as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism.

Mies van der Rohe is considered a pioneer of “modern” architecture along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Furniture and Interiors

Mnesicles (also spelled Mnesikles)
fl. mid 5th century BCE; Greece

Plutarch identified Mnesicles as the architect of the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens. The Greek word propylaea is literally pro=before + pylon=gate. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is based on the Mnesicles' Propylaea.

• Propylaeum: Gate, Acropolis, Athens, Brandenburg Gate, Propylaea (Munich), Persian Wars

Rafael Moneo
b. 5-9-1937; Tudela, Navarre, Spain

Rafael Moneo is the 1996 Pritzker Prize winner and has taught architecture around the world.

• Rafael Moneo, 1967-2004

Julia Morgan
b. 1-20-1872; San Francisco, CA
d. 2-2-1957

Julia Morgan was the architect for William Randolph Hearst mansion at San Simeon between 1919-1947. The Hearst Castle was inspiration for director and actor Orson Welles' “Xanadu” as the setting for his movie Citizen Kane (1941).

• Julia Morgan: Architect of Beauty

William Morris
b. 3-24-1834; Walthamstow, England
d. 10-3-1896; London

English writer, artist, and socialist William Morris did not practice as an architect, however he influenced the look of the built environment through the hand crafted work embodied in the Arts & Crafts Movement.

The Red House, designed for William & Jane Morris by Philip Webb, was furnished by the Morris' and their Pre-Raphaelite friends.

• William Morris & Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner

Robert Moses
b. 12-18-1888; New Haven, CT
d. 7-29-1981; NY

“Master builder” Robert Moses decisions have lead to the consequences of urban sprawl, pollution, and divided communities. He is often compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris.

• Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

Lewis Mumford
b. 10-19-1895; Flushing, Queens, NY
d. 1-26-1990; Amenia, NY

Historian and philosopher of technology and science, Lewis Mumford is noted for his study of cities and urban architecture. Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes.

Lewis Mumford quotes ~
• “The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
• “The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.”
• “New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.”
• “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.”
• “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”

• The Highway and the City
• Technics and Civilization