Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is a Dutch computer scientist and professor.In the 1960s, Meertens applied affix grammars to the des

Is a Dutch computer scientist and professor.In the 1960s, Meertens applied affix grammars to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 IFIP Congress in Edinburgh for his computer-generated string quartet, "Quartet No. 1 in C Major for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello" based on the first non-context-free affix grammar.

Was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately wo

Was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, ahead of many established architects.Sonck ignored the growing trend toward architectural rationalism. Instead, he borrowed from the historical tradition of Finland's medieval stone structures and residential wood based architecture. His more monumental commissions show the influence of a neo-Romanesque style.

Is a Dutch architect and artist.Lars Spuybroek broke onto the international scene of architecture wi

Is a Dutch architect and artist.Lars Spuybroek broke onto the international scene of architecture with his water pavilion on the island of Neeltje Jans (1993-1997), a building consisting of two halves of which he designed the silvery freshwater part. The renowned architecture critic Charles Jencks qualified the building in The New Paradigm of Architecture as “yet to be surpassed

Was a Welsh designer.She became a household name on the strength of her work as a designer and manuf

Was a Welsh designer.She became a household name on the strength of her work as a designer and manufacturer of a range of colourful fabrics for clothes and home furnishings.

She is best known for being featured in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County

She is best known for being featured in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and for her spin-off show, The Hills, which follows her personal and professional life as she pursues a career in the fashion industry. She earns an estimated $1.5 million annually for her television appearances, fashion line, and product endorsements.[1] During Conrad's senior year of high school, she appeared in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Upon graduation, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for one semester. She then transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective e

Was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautful aesthetic sensibility. He went to India in 1945 in part as a missionary and since then lived and worked in India for over 50 years. He obtained Indian citizenship in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala.

Is an architect and town planner, born in Aix-les-Bains, France. He created the French ski resort of

Is an architect and town planner, born in Aix-les-Bains, France. He created the French ski resort of Courchevel located in the Trois Vallées and in doing so practically wrote the rule book on how to design a ski resort. Chappis was a keen ski tourer exploring the mountains around Grenoble in the 1930s before joining the army and serving in the early stages of World War II. A decorated war hero he was captured in an attack on a German position in the final days before the French surrender and served five years in a PoW camp in Austria.

Is a French sculptor

Is a French sculptor

Was an 18th century architect born in the federal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Gr

Was an 18th century architect born in the federal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and most of his designs were built there. Scholars consider him the first professional Lithuanian architect. In his youth he travel

Is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator.Halprin's work is marked by

Is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator.Halprin's work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, 'playable' civic fountains most common in the 1970s, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where "Ira's Fountain" is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.

Was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence

Was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell. He was an Anglo-Indian in the sense that he was an Englishman born and brought up in India.he was by profession an engineer. He studied in the prestigious Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee). It was in Roorkee that he met Louisa Florence Dixie and married her in 1910. They had three sons and a daughter - Lawrence, Leslie, Margaret, and Gerald. He worked for the North-West Railway and it was in Jalandhar that Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912. He also went on to work for the Mymensingh–Bhairab Bazar Railway Company in Bengal.

Was a Polish architect, active mainly in Warsaw. His father was Enrico Marconi, also a famed archite

Was a Polish architect, active mainly in Warsaw. His father was Enrico Marconi, also a famed architect associated with that city, while his cousin was Leonard Marconi, a sculptor.He was born Leandro Jan Ludwik Marconi April 23, 1834 in Warsaw, then in in Kingdom of Poland. His father Enrico Marconi was a noted architect, who moved to Poland in 1822 and settled in Warsaw, while his mother was Malgorzata (English: Margaret) neé Heiton, a lady of Scottish descent.Marconi graduated from the local gymnasium in Warsaw and started career as an architect under the tutelage of his father. Initially both Marconis collaborated at the construction of the expensive Hotel Europejski (1856-1859). He also collaborated with his father and Jan Kacper Heurich at the construction of a parochial church in Wilanów (1857-1860). His first major project was a villa built for a mighty Rau family of enterpreneurs, financed by Wilhelm Ellis Rau. The building (finished in 1868) was considered successful and soon Marconi's career started for good. Until the end of the decade he authored, among others, the plan of refurbishment of his father's villa at Ujazdów Av. (dubbed "palace under the artichoke"), the monumental seat of Bank Handlowy (1873), house of Stanislaw Zamoyski, and a villa for Sobanski family (1877). The best-known of his designs - the Great Synagogue in Warsaw - was commissioned in 1877, after two successive architectural competitions were unsuccessful.

German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo v

German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo von Klenze was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek revival style.

Was a Polish engineer and general.Served as an officer in the Russian Army but joined the Polish Leg

Was a Polish engineer and general.Served as an officer in the Russian Army but joined the Polish Legions during World War I (commander of a regiment, battalion, member of headquarters). Distinguished himself in the Battle of Rasna in 1915. After the Oath crisis in 1917, he headed the Polish Auxiliary Corps and was the training inspector in Polnische Wehrmacht. After Poland regained independence in 1918, he joined the Polish Army, was promoted to general in June that year

Is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the U

Is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including https.

Is a computer scientist. He studied under Andrey Kolmogorov.He is well known for his work in randomn

Is a computer scientist. He studied under Andrey Kolmogorov.He is well known for his work in randomness in computing, algorithmic complexity and intractability, average-case complexity[1], foundations of mathematics and computer science, algorithmic probability, theory of computation, and information theory.

Was a Russian lieutenant-general (awarded posthumously in 1915) and designer of the modern, man-port

Was a Russian lieutenant-general (awarded posthumously in 1915) and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar.

Was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, Ne

Was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876-1881). Other important commissions included P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut, "Iranistan" (1848), St. Peter's Church, on Westchester Avenue at St. Peter's Avenue, the Bronx (1853), the former Temple Emanu-El (New York, 1866-68, destroyed 1927), the Broadway Tabernacle (1859, demolished about 1907), the completion of the New York County Courthouse, better known as the Tweed Courthouse (1876-81), and the Park Presbyterian Chapel on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.[2]

Is a British born computer scientist and mathematician most notable for his work in failures and vul

Is a British born computer scientist and mathematician most notable for his work in failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems.

Is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambri

Is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Was a Canadian chemical engineer and inventor. He invented both the alkaline battery and lithium bat

Was a Canadian chemical engineer and inventor. He invented both the alkaline battery and lithium battery while working for the Eveready Battery company.Throughout the 1950s many engineers had experimented with alkaline batteries but nobody had been able to develop a longer running battery which was worth the higher cost of production. Urry, after testing a number of materials, discovered that manganese dioxide and solid zinc worked well coupled with an alkaline substance as an electrolyte. His main problem was that the battery could not provide enough power. Urry managed to overcome this problem by using powdered zinc.

Was the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Sicheng re

Was the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Sicheng returned to China from the United States after studying at the University of Pennsylvania. His first wife was Lin Huiyin and his niece is Maya Lin.

Was a famous architect in the Netherlands. He became city architect of Haarlem in 1592.

Was a famous architect in the Netherlands. He became city architect of Haarlem in 1592.

Was a noted 20th century Chinese architect and writer. She is said to be the first female architect

Was a noted 20th century Chinese architect and writer. She is said to be the first female architect in China. Her niece is Maya Lin.[1]She was born in Hangzhou though her family had roots in Minhou, Fujian province. From a rich family, Lin Huiyin received the best education a woman could obtain at that time, studying both in Europe and America. She attended St Mary's College in London, and she was in love with the well known Chinese poet Xu Zhimo briefly.

Was a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy.After graduating in Rome, she began her career in

Was a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy.After graduating in Rome, she began her career in the office of Giò Ponti in Milan before opening her own office. She did not have many commissions and, in 1943, her office was destroyed by aerial bombing. The event prompted her deeper involvement in the Italian Communist Party. She spent the years following the war documenting destruction across Italy, participating in the National Congress for Reconstruction. She also founded a weekly magazine, A Cultura della Vita, with Bruno Zevi. After the war she married Pietro Maria Bardi.