Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was a Finnish architect married to another Finnish architect, Heikki Siren.Kaija Siren graduated as

Was a Finnish architect married to another Finnish architect, Heikki Siren.Kaija Siren graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1948. She and her husband Heikki Siren set up their own architectural office in 1949.

Was one of the leading figures of Finnish design,[1] the teacher of several generations of professio

Was one of the leading figures of Finnish design,[1] the teacher of several generations of professional designers in Finland, and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940-1980. He was artistic director of the Wärtsilä Group (later Hackman Plc, present-day Iittala Group) and artistic director and teacher at the College of Applied Arts, the predecessor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki.[2]

Is an American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. Nyberg is the 50th woman in space.She worked

Is an American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. Nyberg is the 50th woman in space.She worked at Johnson Space Center from 1991 to 1995 and received a patent for work she completed in 1991 on Robot Friendly Probe and Socket Assembly. In 1998, on com

Is a Finnish interior designer and former Professor of Industrial Furniture Design at MUOVA, the Des

Is a Finnish interior designer and former Professor of Industrial Furniture Design at MUOVA, the Design Centre of Western Finland in Vaasa (1988-1994). He has also taught at University of Art and Design Helsinki (known in Finnish as TAIK) (1973-1988). Asikainen studied at the Institute for Applied Arts (forerunner to TAIK), completing his studies in 1966. His most well-known design is for the Kari Chair (1982), for which he was awarded the SIO (Finnish Association of Interior Architects) 1982 award for best piece of furniture for a public space. In 1984 he won the prestigious State Applied Arts Commission's Award.

Is a Finnish architect. Palaste is the son of the Finnish Winter War veteran and writer Onni Palaste

Is a Finnish architect. Palaste is the son of the Finnish Winter War veteran and writer Onni Palaste. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Oulu and graduated as an architect in 1986. He is the CEO of Virta-Palaste-Leinonen Arkkitehdit OY, an architecture bureau that has had numerous contracts for hospitals, laboratories and residential buildings in Finland and Russia.

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German architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia.

German architect and painter. Schinkel was the most prominent architect of neoclassicism in Prussia.

Is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He h

Is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He has collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, most notably Chanel but also Chlo

Was a German architect and university lecturer

Was a German architect and university lecturer

Was a Latvian aeroplane designer. His greatest successes, for the VEF Factory, were the sports plane

Was a Latvian aeroplane designer. His greatest successes, for the VEF Factory, were the sports plane VEF I-12 (1935) and the monoplane VEF I-16 (1939), used as a fighter. After World War II, when he had emigrated to Canada, he was the designer of the expe

Was a Polish-Lithuanian architect, a representative of the neoclassical architecture and a professor

Was a Polish-Lithuanian architect, a representative of the neoclassical architecture and a professor of the Imperial University of Vilna, as well as one of the pioneers of industrial design.in the village of Zyrmuny near Lida, in what is now the Hrodna Voblast of Belarus. He graduated from the prestigious Polish Liceum Krzemienieckie and the Imperial University of Vilna. Between 1814 and 1816 he continued his studies on architecture in St. Petersburg, where he became the first Pole on the Imperial Academy of Arts. Between 1817 and 1819 he also travelled to Western European countries, visiting Königsberg, Danzig, Berlin, Paris, Naples, Venice and Vienna before returning to Cracow. Upon his return to Vilnius he was offered a chair of architecture, which he accepted.

Was a Polish architect and soldier.He was a designer of representative buildings in Katowice, Warsaw

Was a Polish architect and soldier.He was a designer of representative buildings in Katowice, Warsaw, Beirut.Schayer immigrated to Lebanon during World War II, collaborated with Fritz Gothelf, a German architect educated in the spirit of the Bauhaus, and with Bahij Makdissi a Lebanese structural engineer.[1]

Is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well as director of

Is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering. His teaching and research is in the areas of interactive architecture, real time behaviour of buildings and environments, living building concepts, collaborative design, file to factory production and parametric design.

An architect, who with Ryue Nishizawa, founded the Tokyo based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and As

An architect, who with Ryue Nishizawa, founded the Tokyo based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in 1995. In 1987, Kazuyo Sejima founded Kazuyo and Associates , after training at Japan Women's University and in the office of Toyo Ito

Is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started

Is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners (KCAP, in Rotterdam) in 1989 and Architects and Planners (ASTOC, in Cologne) in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002. Christiaanse has "tackled some of the highest profile urban design schemes in the Netherlands, hosting buildings by" the finest Dutch and several international architects.[1]

Was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of

Was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. [1][2]. His name is listed prominently under Faculty in the list of notable Rice U. people.

Was a Japanese pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition

Was a Japanese pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".In 1925, Takayanagi began research on television after reading about the new technology in a French magazine. He developed a system similar to that of John Logie Baird, using a Nipkow disk to scan the subject and generate electrical signals. But unlike Baird, Takayanagi took the important step of using a cathode ray tube to display the received signal, thereby developing the first "all-electronic" television set. On December 25, 1926, Takayanagi successfully demonstrated his system at Hamamatsu Industrial High School, where he was teaching at the time (the school is now the Faculty of Engineering at Shizuoka University)

Was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962.

Was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. The Iverson Award for contributions to APL was named in his honor.

Is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and

Is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems.

The record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! Jennings won 74

The record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are US $3,022,700 ($2,520,700 in winnings, a $2,000 2nd-place prize in his 75th appearance, and $500,000 in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions).[1] Jennings held the record for most money won on any game show ever until the end of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (first aired on May 25, 2005), when he was displaced by Brad Rutter,

Was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the

Was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. 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. Kenzo Tange was also an influential protagonist of the movement structuralism. He said: "It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was later to call structuralism", (cited in Plan 2/1982, Amsterdam).

Was a Bohemian[1] architect Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dien

Was a Bohemian[1] architect Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and Bohemian mother[2] and a member of the well known Dientzenhofer family of architects. As an architect he co-operated with his father and with Giovanni Santini.

Was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development

Was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of Dub music in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously on

Was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.With colleagues,

Was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.With colleagues, he cofounded the Metabolist Movement in 1960, whose members were known as Metabolists. It was a radical Japanese avant-garde movement pursuing the merging and recycling of architecture styles within an Asian context. The movement was very successful, peaking when its members received praise for the Takara Cotillion Beautillion at the Osaka World Expo 1970. The group was dismantled shortly thereafter.