Richard Meier's favorite color is white -- the pristine noncolor, or the distillation of all color. He has used white consistently in his pure, geometric sculptures that take in light and bend it or deflect it to create form and space. Adhering to the purist values of Le Corbusier, Meier creates buil

Clean, Composed, Empty, Five architects, Functional

Zittel specializes in creating compartmentalized living units, fully functional microcosms that could actually well serve the space constraints on an overpopulated planet. These pieces are somehow simultaneously absurd, satiric, and functional: in a sense Zittel is more preoccupied with design than w

Clever, Domestic, Functional, Quirky, Round

Eileen Gray had a predilection for small rooms. She wanted to complicate interiors in a Modernist direction without neglecting comfort, familiarity, sensuality. Thus her architecture and designs strive to be both mobile and livable, articulating both the sedentary feel of the home and the ambulant, i

Clean, De stijl architecture, Elegant, Functional, Intimate, Minimal

The name of the architectural offices of Vastu-Shilpa Consultants, "Sangath," translates into "moving together through participation." The workspace's appellation is telling, as is the title of the group itself; Vastu Shilpa means "design of environment." In case it's not already painfully obvious, t

Environmental architecture, Functional, Modernist architecture, Organic, Political, Pristine, Sincere