Top architects in Europe have contributed abundantly in the formation of various attractive structures which includes several skyscrapers, roads, commercial complexes like retail stores, shopping malls, retail chain outlets, residential complexes, sports complexes, bridges, pools, a number of institutions, and a many more. The top architects in Europe are best in their skill and dedication in giving their work the best form and present them in a very beautiful manner. People visiting Europe are even delighted to watch some of the modern residential as well as commercial complexes and buildings which form one of the major attractions of various locations in Europe.
One of the top architects in Europe was Adolf Loos. He was born as the son of a stonemason in Brno Czechia. He started He started looking after the shop of his father and from there he learned his materials. In Dresden he studied architecture and after that he departed to the US for three years. In the US, he was very most impressed by the skillfulness in buildings, household furnishing and clothing. He also appreciated the English house and disapproved the German Gemütlichkeit. After his father's death his mother liked him to look after the family business. In consequence, they broke off and never met again.
Adolf Loos always asks his customers to pay the fee in the form of natural goods and therefore, without possessing any car, house and money, he lived as a millionaire with a number of women. In the year, 1930, the president of Czechoslovakia, Masaryk, offered him a pension for life. As an architect, he began his own school of architecture. This reputed architect of Europe always promoted his students to visit the US. Adolf Loos wrote articles in several newspapers against the Art Nouveau and mainly versus the Vienna Seccession. He also penned a study regarding the relationship between crime and ornamentation.
He stated that the lack of ornaments is considered as a sign of spiritual strength. Adolf Loos was a functionalist and he strongly opposed the idea of architecture as art. He devised the Raumplan as one of the leading ideas in house designing. His friends are among the intellectual elite group of the city like Kokoschka, Schönberg and Wittgenstein. In the year, 1932, deafness along with a number of other diseases handicapped him entirely. In the year, 1933, he was not able to work anymore and died in the same year.
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Düsseldorf Joseph Maria Olbrich was born in Germany in a place called Silesia in the year, 1867. Olbrich studied architecture in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts and won the Rome Prize in his third year. After doing work in the office of Otto Wagner for a short period of time, he traveled through Europe. After returning to Vienna he assisted in the formation of the Secession, an anti-traditionalist forum. He died in the 8th of August, 1908.
Apart from the above mentioned names there are some other top architects in Europe who made the continent one of the most able places in the globe in terms of its perfectly designed skyscrapers, bridges, roads, buildings, commercial complexes, residential locations, etc.
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