The architecture of who makes me want to be an architect

I think I was not prepared to write about the architects who inspire me, because until now I never questioned me about this theme. So now I have no idea about what to write, but if I try to make some sense about what inspire me and what makes me feel more interested in my career, I am pretty sure I have some names who comes to my mind and makes me want to discover more about architecture every day. Maybe for the works they have done throughout their careers or the way they project their profession, whatever, I am able to expose three personalities of the architecture who I consider my favs.

1.       Roberto Burle Marx

This Brazilian landscape architect and plastic artist is the creator of some of my favorite projects in the world. I heard the first time of his work in my first year of college, talking about some referents with my workshop teacher. I felt in love with the landscape work of this man, and the way he project the space, taking care of every detail as a geometric form, having as a final result spaces of pure nature architecture, so colorful and always trying to show the respect he have to the environment and the nature.

2.       Alvaro Siza

The way I started to search more of this Portuguese architect is a little bit funny. I was looking for a friend in the design building in my campus, so then I saw some pictures of a house (a really white house) in a work of a design student, and I read the name of the house´s author and he was Alvaro Siza. I like the work of this man because I personally love the white color and he uses this color in a perfect way. Contrary Burle Marx colorful works, I like Alvaro´s projects because he combine the use of white color with simple forms, resulting pure spaces, that makes the human feel in a place that is projected for the human, and sometimes that is a goal so hard to reach.

  

3.       Isamu Noguchi

This man is not an architect, but since a long time ago I am really interested in his work, and in many occasions I felt inspired by his projects. He is a U.S.-Japanese designer and sculptor, son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet. He is the only one in my list who is not alive, and his death was in 1988, in New York. I feel really attracted to his works because I like the way he used the geometry to construct several of his more famous sculptures, and the result are pieces full of simple lines and an interpretation of the form so unique. Isamu has a Museum now, in New York City, where people can see part of the work of this talented man. I would love to visit it one day, to know  what it feels to be in front of a piece of this incredible artist.