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From 1916 to 2002. Kanvinde    plays with space and forms. His designs are slender, balanced, proportionate, neat and well crafted.     The building is important but most important is the gate of the user. Example is “Isckon   Temple”.   He gave much    more importance to the natural light. He gave such a form to the building that it can solve the problem of ventilation as well as excessive heat . He believed in Vernacular Architecture. He believed    that the image should be such that can set the mood and interest for which the building stands for. Both inherent    values and historical influences contributed towards good architecture. An art can be to nourish the senses. Art is purely an aesthetic exercise. He believed    that a grid of columns    forming a matrix giving structural   and spatial aspect would turn a   design to more sophisticated and   faceted. He treated his bui...

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet  ( 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) A   Spanish   Catalan   architect from   Reus   and the best known practitioner of   Catalan Modernism . Gaudí's works reflects an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in   Barcelona , including his   magnum opus , the   Sagrada Família . Gaudi’s style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. He worked almost entirely in or near   Barcelona . Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), which was unfinished at his death in 1926. The architectural work of Gaudí is remarkable for its range of forms, textures, and polychromy and for the free, expressive way in which these elements of his   art   seem to be composed. The complex geometries of a Gaudí   building   so coincide with its architectural structure that the w...

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965)   Swiss - French  architect, designer, painter,  urban planner , writer Born- Switzerland Citizenship- French in 1930 WORKS 1923: Villa La Roche, Paris 1925: Villa Jeanneret, Paris 1928: Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France 1929: Cité du Refuge, Armée du Salut, Paris, France 1931: Palace of the Soviets, Moscow, USSR (project) 1931: Immeuble Clarté, Geneva, Switzerland 1933: Tsentrosoyuz, Moscow, USSR 1947–1952: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France 1949–1952: United Nations headquarters, New York City (Consultant) 1949–1953: Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina (project manager: Amancio Williams ) 1950–1954: Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France 1951: Maisons Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1951: Buildings in Ahmedabad, India 1951: Sanskar Kendra Museum, Ahmedabad 1951: ATMA House 1951: Villa Sarabhai, Ahmedabad 1951: Villa Shodhan, Ahmedabad 1952: Unité ...