Bill Bernbach was rather down-to-earth and uneccentric for an ad-man who is still considered the "Father of the Creative Revolution." Though his name came third on the masthead of Doyle Dane Bernbach, there was no question that Bill Bernbach was the impetus and direction behind the agency. After ghos

Charming, Clever, Sincere

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, like so many influential artists, cannot be easily classified. While he had a defining influence on modern architecture, and especially the evolution of the skyscraper, he was more interested in intensifying an individual's experience of a space than in using architecture as

Bauhaus architecture, Cool, Minimal, Modernist architecture, Sincere, Spare, Spiritual

The Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck, a member of the loosely associated Team X, was deeply concerned with the spiritual vacuity of most modern architecture. Dismayed at Rotterdam's development since World War II, van Eyck was convinced that such industrial designs caused alienation and psychological di

Ciam, Expansive, Geometric, Open-ended, Playful, Round, Sincere, Team x

The mystically inspired Louis Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in the United States. He acquired a thorough grounding in the Beaux-Art school of architecture and worked through the 1920s and 1930s first as a draughtsman and then as a head designer. Kahn infused his buildings with monumentalism, ri

Grand, Layered, Modernist architecture, Monumental, Sincere, Spiritual