The short-lived partnership between the British Richard Rogers and the Italian Renzo Piano is most well-known for its 1977 design of the Centre Pompidou, the modern art museum in Paris. Before teaming up, Rogers was involved in another architectural partnership called Team 4, while Piano taught at th

Geometric, Hi-tech, High tech architecture, Pop

In 1927, jobless and distraught over the death of his daughter five years earlier, Richard Buckminster Fuller contemplated suicide. Instead of killing himself, he decided to live the rest of his life as an experiment for the benefit of humankind. He re-christened himself "Guinea Pig B" (B stood for B

Cyberpunk fiction, Hi-tech, International style, Mathematical, Open-ended, Organic, Pioneering, Spiritual

A child of Modernism, Ettore Sottsass elevated the structures of design to new intellectual and philosophical levels. After receiving an architectural degree from the Polytechnic in Turin, Sottsass opened his own design studio, where he dabbled in furniture, sculptural projects, and the fine and appl

Excessive, Geometric, Hi-tech, Layered, Pop/surrealism/anti-design, Round

It takes a lot to get noticed in the London fashion scene these days. With competition like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, one may have to scream -- or better yet whisper. It is this latter tactic that Hussein Chalayan has chosen. Sure, he's buried iron-studded dresses in the yard to get them r

Avant-garde fashion, Electronic, Hi-tech, Machinistic, Minimal, Sophisticated