Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The M.H. De Young Memorial Museum houses numerous collections, representing a variety of cultures from all over the world. The works of art in these collections go from the present day all the way back to the beginnings of human history. The museum i

Franklin D. Israel   United States   Like many of the architects currently in the limelight in Los Angeles, Frank Israel is not a Californian either. He hails from the East Coast of the United States, where he studied with Robert Venturi and, despite having worked for some years with Fr

Eric Owen Moss   United States   California is littered with anonymous buildings built during World War II, when the needs of industry demanded large storage areas. Many of these buildings are now fertile ground for the intervention of architects, in a country where the use of these

Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones   United States   The sobriety of the containers that house the big film studios often contrasts with the waste of fantasy and imagination that takes place inside them. Most of the time, these buildings are simply diaphanous and blind boxes that allow the installation

Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest