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Eero Saarinen

A renowned Finnish-American architect, and one of the leading figures of the second generation of modernism. Taking the diversified exploration of zeitgeist, modular concepts, and organicism as his point of departure, he harnessed innovative material structures as creative tools to endow architecture with a sculptural artistic quality—delivering a powerful jolt to the increasingly rigid architectural landscape of his time.

Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was an American architect, a representative figure of the Chicago School, hailed as the Father of Skyscrapers and the Father of Modernism.

Antonio Gaudí (June 25, 1852 — June 10, 1926) was a male architect born in Reus, a small city in Catalonia, Spain. He graduated from the Provincial School of Architecture of Catalonia. As a representative figure of the plastic architecture school, he belonged to the architectural style of the Art Nouveau period.

Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan on September 13, 1941, is a preeminent Japanese architect. A self-taught trailblazer in the field, he has pioneered a distinctive architectural style that blends Eastern and Western aesthetics by masterfully integrating natural elements such as light, wind, and water into his fair-faced concrete structures.

Louis Isadore Kahn (Feb 20, 1901 – Mar 14, 1974) was an Estonian-American architect. Influenced by ancient ruins, he developed the servant and served spaces theory, with a focus on structural rationality and the masterful use of light.