Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture is a choral art, but weaves around individual trajectories. The 20th century saw modern architecture emerge as a product of technical changes, social transformations, and aesthetic mutations: steel and glass, elevators, or air conditioni

There’s no master without myth, so it is no surprise that the four most prominent modern architects, the most widely studied at schools, had novel-like lives: moments of genius, crises, stimulating friendships, great women by their sides… Luis Fernán

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Wright is an architect who was larger than life, and overwhelmingly popular. His tempestuous life has inspired an opera, Shining Brow, and Simon & Garfunkel dedicated a song to him in their mythical album Bridge Over Troubled Water. He left us an ext

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Mies van der Rohe is almost diametrically opposed to Frank Lloyd Wright. Compared with an extravagant personality who left complete works of over 1,000 pages, 12,000 drawings, and 100,000 letters, the twenty years younger Mies was a taciturn German w

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Le Corbusier was as French as he was Swiss, and as much an artist as an architect. Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds but later naturalized French, he developed an architectural oeuvre that was part of an essentially artistic project. Unlike Mies van der Rohe

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We have gone over the life of that behemoth of a personality that was Frank Lloyd Wright, who broke the box inside which architecture was locked up through organic works like the Prairie Houses, integrated in the landscape, and who at the same time s