Libeskind is often classed as an architect of memory, of death or of monuments. This is true for his earlier paper works and his writings, informed by his education at the The Cooper Union with John Hedjuk and at Essex University with Dalibor Vesely, but his later career sucesses following the World
According to Frank Gehry, architecture is intimately linked with social structure and purpose. He insists that his buildings address the context and culture of their particular sites, as well as provide a comfortable, stimulating experience to their occupants. Gehry also believes that architecture is
In his heyday, Robert Venturi was more theorist than architect. With a grasp of subtle architectural concepts, Venturi sought to define a Pop architecture for an American society that he claimed was bored by orthodox Modernist architecture. His building designs during the 1960s and 1970s exhibited a