* 1906 in Mühlhausen (Thuringia)

† 1960 in car accident on the Avus

• apprenticeship as carpenter, studied at the Kunstgewerbeakademie Dresden
• 1928–1932 trained at the Bauhaus under Mies van der Rohe; Diploma; until 1937 architect in Mies van der Rohe’s office
• until 1940 freelance architect in Berlin (buildings for the UfA, film vault, negative house, administration building, Reichspost Ministry)
• 1945–1947 freelance architect again; Luftbrückendenkmal (Berlin Airlift Memorial), high-rise building Lietzensee
• 1947 Professor of Architecture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin
• 1958 one of his Hansaviertel houses was shown at the Brussels World Exhibition

* 1910 in Vallendar

† 1985 in Frankfurt am Main

• studied architecture at the Hessische Höhere Bauschule Offenbach/M., Diploma 1934
• until 1936 colleague of Martin Weber, master builder of churches, Frankfurt/M.
• from 1936 Rimpl office, Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, Rostock, industrial buildings
• from 1946 joint office with A. Giefer; numerous new and reconstruction projects, housing and church construction mainly in Frankfurt/M.
• 1950–1953 reconstruction of the Imperial Cathedral Frankfurt
• 1950–1970 Rhine-Main Airport
• from 1980 reconstruction of the Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt/M.

* 1908 in Frankfurt (Oder)

† 1992 in Berlin

• studied at the Technical University Berlin, including under Heinrich Tessenow, Diploma 1935
• from 1935 worked in the office of Werner March
• from 1939 lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering, Berlin
• from 1953 joint office with S. Ruegenberg
• 1960–1970 Director of the Meisterschule für Kunsthandwerk (today UdK) Berlin

* 1921 in Berlin

† 2010 in Itzehoe

• studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin; Diploma 1950
• from 1950 freelance architect in Berlin
• 1952 International Hall of Residence for students at Eichkamp, Berlin (with Heinz Weber)
• 1955 Federal Youth Hostel on the Venusberg, Bonn (with Stefan Wewerka and Hubert Hoffmann)
• 1958–1967 office in Berlin shared with Georg Heinrichs
• from 1962 overall concept of the Märkisches Viertel (with G. Heinrichs and W. Düttmann)
• 1967–1982 Senate Building Director in West Berlin; initiator of the International Building Exhibition (1977–1987)
• 1993–1997 urban development concept for the new use of the Volltuchfabrik Luckenwalde (with Götz Keller and Moritz Müller)

* 1927 in Riga

• studied at the Technical University of Berlin
• 1955 Diploma; then worked in the Bruno Döring office in Berlin
• 1951 administration building of Berliner Bank
• 1957 merger with Klaus Kirsten to form Kirsten & Nather office
• Heinz Nather lives in Berlin

(Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho)

* 1907 in Rio de Janeiro

† 2012 in Rio de Janeiro

• studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; graduated in 1934
• from 1934 worked in the office of the Brazilian city planner Lùcio Costa
• from 1945 member of the Communist Party of Brazil
• 1947–1953 representative of Le Corbusier on the planning committee for the UN Headquarters in New York
• 1957–1964 public buildings in Brasília
• from 1966 exiled to Algeria and France; later taught at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• 1982 final return to Brazil; membership in numerous institutions; his work received many awards; intensive planning and construction work until his death in 2012
• 2013 inclusion of his architectural archive in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme

* 1925 in Berlin

† 1977 in Berlin

• colleague of Hans Scharoun
• 1951–1960 worked at Hermann Fehling
• from 1960 freelance architect; later Secretary of the Department of Architecture at the Akademie der Künste (West)

* 1922 in Hamburg
† 2008 in Berlin

• studied at the Technical University Dresden
• graduated 1948 in Berlin
• 1949 assistant to Hans Freese for the design of high-rise buildings, French High School in Berlin; further buildings for the French allies in Berlin
• 1959–1962 Phillippus Church, Berlin
• 1962 Sühne-Christi Church, Berlin
• 1975–1976 extension buildings at Hansaplatz (with Manfred Frankenberger)

* 1907 in Berlin

† 1999 in Berlin

• studied at the Technical University Berlin
• 1931 Diploma under Hans Poelzig
• 1932–1933 colleague of Charles Sieles in Paris
• 1935–1945 Government Building Council in Berlin
• 1945 appointment by Max Taut to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin; focus on housing construction according to the requirements of the post-war period

* 1903 in St. Petersburg

† 1996 in Berlin

• 1917 escaped from St. Petersburg to Berlin
• 1920–1924 apprenticeship as building construction technician at the Baugewerkschule Berlin and apprenticeship in the office of Bruno Paul
• 1925–1934 worked in the architectural office of Mies van der Rohe
• 1929 site manager of the German pavilion by Mies van der Rohe at the World Exhibition in Barcelona
• 1931 State Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts for young architects
• 1935 Head of the airport design department of the German commercial aviation schools
• 1945–1947 worked for the municipal authorities for the reconstruction of Berlin under Hans Scharoun
• 1947–1956 worked in the architectural office of Hans Scharoun, numerous designs
• 1957–1968 architect in the district office of Spandau

(Franz Joseph Ruf)

* 1908 in Munich

† 1982 in Munich

• studied at the Technical University of Munich, Diploma 1931
• from 1931 freelance architect
• 1942–1945 military service
• 1945 reestablishment of his office
• 1947–1953 professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg
• 1952–1954 construction of the new academy building, Nuremberg
• 1949–1951 Bayerische Staatsbank, Nuremberg
• 1953–1972 professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
• 1957–1960 President of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
• from 1953 Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
• 1954–1956 Neue Maxburg Munich (with Theo Pabst)
• 1958 buildings of the World Exhibition Brussels (with Egon Eiermann)
• from 1960 BHF-Bank, Frankfurt
• from 1963 Kanzlerbungalow, Bonn; further government buildings in Bonn; administrative, church and museum buildings, especially in Munich, Nuremberg and Fulda; work as designer; recipient of various awards

* 1926 in Lund

† 2002 in Lausannne

• studied at the Stockholm University of Technology, Diploma 1946
• from 1946 working stay in the USA
• 1948 collaboration with Swedish building authorities
• from 1950 joint office with Fritz Jaenecke, working together until the beginning of the 1970s; focal points: industrial buildings, social housing, sports facilities
• from 1958 Malmö Stadium
• 1964–1983 professorship at the University of Lund

* 1915 in Düsseldorf

† 2005 in Hausham/Fischbachau

• from 1935 worked in his father’s architectural office
• from 1937 Technical University Darmstadt, followed by military service
• 1946–1947 Technical University of Stuttgart
• from 1949 own office in Düsseldorf; housing estates, churches, commercial and industrial buildings; occupation as furniture designer
• 1951–1953 Haniel multi-storey car park, Düsseldorf (with partners)
• 1953–1956 Mannesmann high-rise, Düsseldorf (with partners)
• 1961–1969 Cologne/Bonn Airport
• 1961–1972 professorship at the Hochschule für Baukunst, Hamburg

* 1892 in Vienna

† 1972 in Vienna

• studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, including under Heinrich Tessenow
• 1919 with Tessenow to Dresden; collaboration on the settlement Pößneck and the garden city Hellerau
• from 1923 Chief Architect of the Austrian Association for Housing in Vienna
• from 1925 freelance architect, collaboration with Franz Schacherl, municipal housing estates of “Red Vienna”; furniture designs
• from 1927 Städelschule, Frankfurt/M., involved in Ernst May’s residential building projects
• 1933/1934 Opelbad on the Neroberg, Wiesbaden
• from 1936 Josef Hoffmann’s successor at the Kunstgewerbeschule; residential buildings and social housing in Vienna
• from 1950 professorship at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
• 1951 architectural prize of the City of Vienna
• 1955–1957 Pension Insurance Institution, Vienna
• 1967 Grand Austrian State Prize

* 1899 in Remscheid

† 1973 in Düsseldorf

• studied at the Technical Universities in Hanover, Darmstadt and Stuttgart
• 1925 collaborated with Erich Mendelsohn, met Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• 1927 apprenticeship at the Werkkunstschule Aachen
• 1931 German Chapel, World Exhibition Paris
• 1934 worked at Rudolf Schwarz; work as a freelance architect
• 1947 professorship at TU Aachen
• 1949 Federal Parliament, Bonn
• 1950 Federal Chancellery, Bonn
• 1952 Head of the Darmstadt discussion group “Mensch und Technik” (People and Technology)
• 1963 reconstruction of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin
• 1959–1965 Professor and Director of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Düsseldorf

* 1902 in Basel

† 1993 in Basel

• studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, including under Karl Moser, one of the fathers of modern construction in Switzerland; 1927 Diploma
• 1927–1930 worked in the offices Artaria/Schmidt, Basel, and Rudolf Steiger, Zurich
• until 1932 study trips to England and the USA
• from 1933 freelance architect in Basel in a joint office with his brother Walter Senn; housing estates, industrial buildings, residential buildings
• 1950 development plan for the Gellert site, Basel
• 1962–1965 high-rise Hechtliacker, Basel

* 1911 in Münder/Deister

† 1989 in Berlin

• studied at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart, including under Heinrich Tessenow and Hans Poelzig; 1945 Diploma
• from 1945 freelance architect, proposals and plans for small apartments with space-saving solutions
• 1951 administration building of Berliner Bank
• 1956/1957 development coordinator of Interbau 57

(Hugh Asher Stubbins)

* 1912 in Birmingham (USA)

† 2006 in Cambridge (USA)

• studied at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge (USA)
• 1935–1943 worked as a designer and draughtsman in various architectural offices
• from 1940 assistant to Walter Gropius at Harvard University in Cambridge (USA)
• 1949 foundation of Stubbins Associates architectural office in Cambridge (USA)
• 1973–1977 Citigroup Center, New York City
• 1974 member of the National Academy of Design
• 1978 Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
• 1986 Treasury Building, Singapore
• 1993 Landmark Tower, Yokohama (for a long time the highest building in Japan)

* 1884 in Königsberg

† 1967 in Berlin

• trained at the Baugewerbeschule Königsberg
• 1905–1906 architect at the municipal building administration of Rixdorf; collaboration with Mies van der Rohe
• 1906–1911 worked at Hermann Billing in Karlsruhe
• from 1911 self-employed architect in Berlin
• 1912 joined the office of his brother Bruno Taut and Franz Hoffmann, Berlin
• 1918 founder member of the November Group and the Work Council for Art
• 1919 co-founder of the artistic movement “Gläserne Kette” (Glass Chain)
• 1922 participaed in the Chicago Tribune Building competition
• 1922–1925 office building of the General Confederation of German Trade Unions; residential and commercial building of the Deutsche Buchdrucker, both in Berlin
• 1927 house for the Weißenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart
• 1945–1954 professorship at the Hochschule der Künste (now UdK), Berlin

* 1910 in Budapest

† 2002 in Noisy-sur-École

• studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, including under Henry Prost and Auguste Perret; Diploma 1932
• 1930–1975 employee at, later editor-in-chief of, the magazine “L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui”
• from 1940 architect in Marseille; later active in the Resistance
• from 1946 chief architect for the reconstruction of the Arles region: urban planning, housing development, social housing, schools and churches; construction work in Algeria and Tunisia
• 1948 Founder, later Secretary General, of the “Union Internationale des Architectes” (UIA)
• 1957 Lourdes Underground Basilica (25,000 seats)
• 1957–1960 Bonn University Library (with Fritz Bornemann)

* 1909 in Mylau (Vogtland)

† 1986 in Berg at the Starnberger Lake

• studied at the Staatliche Akademie für Kunstgewerbe, Dresden and at the Bauhaus, Dessau, including under Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer
• 1935 employment at Henschel Flugzeugwerke
• from 1938 employee of the Herbert Rimpl architectural office (with 700 employees at times), prestigious and industrial buildings
• from 1942 Head of the Berlin branch office of H. Rimpl
• from 1947 Hochbauamt Frankfurt/M., a “refuge” for former Rimpl employees like Krahn, Giefer, Mäckler.
• from 1949 freelance architect in Frankfurt/M. administration and prestigious buildings
• 1954 National Theater Mannheim (with Otto E. Schweizer)
• from 1955 successor of Martin Elsaesser on the chair of Design and Building Science TH Munich
• from 1957 Hamburg State Opera, major projects such as the first German research reactor (TU-Munich) in Garching, Thyssen Hütte, Oberpostdirektion Hamburg, Deutschlandfunk Cologne

* 1904 in Cologne

† 1985 in Hanover

• studied at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Gdansk and Dresden, Diploma 1929
• 1934 government architect
• from 1934 freelance architect in Berlin (including the construction of Thingplätze with Fritz Schaller)
• from 1936 in Hanover, new buildings of Vereinigte Leichtmetall Werke (VLM)
• 1937 house for his brother-in-law Konrad Adenauer, Rhöndorf
• from 1947 chair at the TH Hannover; extensive building work, including for Continental
• awarded the BDA prize several times