By Cristina Miguelez, Remodeling Specialist | FIXr
Have you ever been on a trip and noticed that certain buildings or structures catch your eye? As you walk through your own city, have you ever taken a step back to observe the buildings that breathe life into your surroundings? It’s sometimes easy to look past the structures that surround us, but architects have designed our environments to be both beautiful and functional, and doing this is no easy feat.
The first Monday of every October is World Architecture Day, and to celebrate this year, we surveyed more than 100 American architects to find out their greatest inspirations and influences – those which made them first fall in love with architecture and those which inspired their visions and serve as the foundation of their architectural theories.
In this survey, architects chose architects. Therefore, these rankings are not only based on popularity or legacy, but creativity, innovation, technique, and overall design and engineering acumen. Our survey respondents are accomplished American architects whose choices can provide a deeper insight into the cultural and social influences of American architecture.
