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John Nash
Wallace Neff
Pier Luigi Nervi

Balthasar Neumann
Richard Neutra
Oscar Niemeyer

John Nash
b. 1-18-1752; Lambeth, London, England
d. 5-13-1835; East Cowes, Isle of Wight

John Nash designed country houses with landscape garden designer Humphry Repton, became noted by the Prince Regent (to become King George IV) and was then responsible for the layout of Regency London, including Buckingham Palace.

Nash was the subject of a satirical cartoon by illustrator George Cruickshank using the personfication of ‘John Bull’ to question the costs of construction.

• John Nash: A Complete Catalogue

Wallace Neff
b. 1-28-1895; La Mirada, LA County, California
d. 6-8-1982; Pasadena

Wallace Neff is considered responsible for leading the development of the “California” architectural style drawing from the architectural styles of both Spain and the Mediterranean for inspiration.

Neff also designed a “bubble” house, a dome-shaped construction made of reinforced concrete cast in position over an inflatable balloon. The design made for inexpensive construction and was used for large housing projects in Egypt, Brazil, and West Africa during the 1940s and 1950’s; it did not gain support in the United States.

• Wallace Neff and the Grand Houses of the Golden State

Pier Luigi Nervi
b. 6-21-1891; Sondrio, Italy
d. 1-9-1979

Pier Luigi Nervi was a structural engineer known for his use of reinforced concrete. He was the architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, George Washington Bridge Bus Station in NYC, and the field house at Dartmouth College.

• Aesthetics and Technology in Building (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Pier Luigi Nervi

Balthasar Neumann
b. 1-27-1687; Kingdom of Bohemia (currently Czech Republic)
d. 8-19-1753

Artillery engineer and architect Johann Balthasar Neumann fused Austrian, Bohemian, Italian and French Baroque architecture to create a style of high Baroque architecture represented by the Würzburg Residence.

• Space into Light: The Churches of Balthasar Neumann

Richard Neutra
b. 4-8-1892; Vienna, Austria
d. 4-16-1970; Wuppertal, Germany

Richard Neutra is best remembered as a modernist architect in the International Style. Among his notable buildings are the Cyclorama Building at the historic Gettysburg Battlefield and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs. (The Kauffmann's were the family that commissioned Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright.)

• Life and Shape: The Autobiography of Richard Neutra

Oscar Niemeyer
b. 12-15-1907; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
d. 12-5-2012; Rio de Janeiro

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho pioneered the construction possibilities of reinforced concrete and is considered a “sculptor” of monuments. In 1956 Niemeyer designed the buildings for the planned city of Brasilia, the new capitol of Brazil.

• The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer

Jean Nouvel
b. 8-12-1945; Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, France

Jean Nouvel has been awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005, and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.

• Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel: Complete Works 1970-2008

André Le Nôtre
b. 3-12-1613; Paris, France
d. 9-15-1700

André Le Nôtre was the designer and responsible for the construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles (Louis Le Vau), including the radiating city plan for Versailles. His work is the height of jardin à la française, the French formal garden style.

• Andre Le Notre: Gardener to the Sun King

Eliot Noyes
b. 8-12-1910; Boston, Massachusetts
d. 7-18-1977; Connecticut

Eliot Noyes was an architect and industrial designer best remembered for his work on the IBM Selectric typewriter and pioneering development of “comprehensive corporate-wide design programs that integrated design strategy and business strategy.”

• Eliot Noyes