Top Ten Modern Architects

What makes a great architect?

Is it how many buildings they designed or how creative they are? Or is it how they responded to the design problems of their age and what influence they have on other architects and the world at large? Did their designs address the issues of their age? The core problem for architects of the 20th century was the ordering of society around the idea of industrial production.

What forms were best for communicating this new organization in society? How do architects represent the fast space of an automobile, a train, or an airplane? How should architects incorporate new scientific breakthroughs into architecture?

Who are the greatest Modern architects of the 20th century?

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
2:30 - 10. Walter Gropius
3:49 - 9. S.O.M.
5:58 - 8. Carlo Scarpa
7:10 - 7. Pier Luigi Nervi
9:00 - 6. Philip Johnson
10:46 - 5. Frank Gehry
11:46 - 4. Lois Kahn
13:08 - 3. Frank Lloyd Wright
15:48 - 2. Mies van der Rohe
17:47 - 1. Le Corbusier