His band recorded romantic boleros as a matter of course, but in the early '40s he was also the significant architect of son montuno.
Or can we live without it?" Folly or not, Theodore H. M. Prudon, president of the Docomomo U.S. preservation group, said it was a "very significant building by a very significant architect".
The most significant architect of the early twentieth century was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who mixed elements of traditional Scottish architecture with contemporary movements.
Alongside the Stirling's tendency to pick the second-best goes a habit of slowness in recognising the most significant architects.
Calling Mr. McAllister "one of the most significant architects of the 20th century in terms of creativity of form and influence," Mr. Hess said, "He saw that the world was becoming shaped by the automobile".
Here was a critic, trained to make rich pronouncements about grand public works built by significant architects, who dared to offer, in his study "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies," a reading of the city that took seriously the freeways, beachside bungalows, and hamburger stands (not to mention hamburgers) that so delighted him.
He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.
Scotland produced some of the most significant architects of the early eighteenth century, including Colen Campbell (1676 1729), James Gibbs (1682 1754) and William Adam (1689 1748), all of whom were influenced by Classical architecture.
Scotland produced some of the most significant architects of this era, including: Colen Campbell (1676 1729), James Gibbs (1682 1754), James (1732 94), John (1721 92) and Robert Adam (1728 92) and William Chambers (1723 96), who all created work that to some degree looked to classical models.
How to evaluate a building castigated at its inception for blocking the vista of Park Avenue, but that remains a significant work of an important architect?
Mr. Salmona, the first Latin American to receive the Alvar Aalto Medal, was considered Colombia's most significant living architect and a leading proponent of redesigning urban spaces to instill a sense of interaction among residents in the face of endemic political tension and crime.
