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Joaquín Toesca
Trophonius
Jorn Utzon

Joaquin Toesca
b. 1745; Rome
d. 6-11-1799; Santiago, Chile

Italian architect Joaquin Toesca went to Chile in 1780 to build a cathedral and then on to influence to neoclassical look of Santiago with a number of works including the levees at the Mapocho river to control flooding.

Trophonius

The saying “those whom the gods love die young” comes from Homer's Hymn to Apollo and how Trophonius built the temple at Delphi with his brother Agamedes.

The oracle told the brothers to do whatsoever they wanted for six days after they finished, and on the seventh day their greatest wish would be granted. They did, and were found dead on the seventh day.

Jorn Utzon
b. 4-9-1918; Copenhagen, Denmark
d. 11-29-2008; Copenhagen

Jorn Oberg Utzon is the architect of the Sydney (Australia) Opera House which was declared a World Heritage Site in 2007. Utzon is the second person to have his work so recognized in their lifetime.

• Jorn Utzon: Houses

John Vanbrugh
b. 1-24-1664; London, England
d. 3-26-1726; Whitehall

Architect John Vanbrugh is best remembered as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Vanbrugh is also noted as a dramatist for his two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse (1696) and The Provoked Wife (1697).

FYI - The Castle Howard was used as a location in the 1981 television dramatization of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Henry van de Velde
b. 4-3-1863; Antwerp, Belgium
d. 10-25-1957; Oberägeri, Switzerland

Henry van de Velde, architect and furniture designer working in the Art Nouveau style, was inspired by the English Arts and Crafts Movement.

Van de Velde worked with the German state-sponsored efforts to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques after WW I to give Germany a competitive footing with England and the United States.

• Henry van de Velde in Weimar

Giorgio Vasari
b. 7-30-1511; Arezzo, Tuscany
d. 6-27-1574; Florence

Renaissance architect and painter Giorgio Vasari, who coined the term “Renaissance”, is best remembered for his biographies of Italian, The Lives of the Artists.

Among Vasari's architectural designs are the loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi and renovations to the medieval churches of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce.

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
b. 10-1-1507; near Modena (Emilia-Romagna), Italy
d. 7-7-1573; Rome

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, who worked in the 16th century Mannerism style, is best remembered for his two great masterpieces - the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome.

Vignola, along with Serlio, was called to work Fontainebleau by Francois I.

• Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture by Giacomo Vignola

Leonardo da Vinci
b. 4-15-1452; Vinci, near Florence, Italy
d. 5-2-1519; Amboise, France

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Vitruvius
b. ca. 80/70 BC?
d. ca. 25 BC

Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote De architectura (“On architecture”), a ten book treatise on architecture, as a guide for building projects.

De architectura is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods, the planning and design of structures such as aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours, and small machines, measuring devices, instruments.

Vitruvius is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery.