Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Is a Dutch architect, educator, and theorist. His major contributions are in the field of mass housi

Is a Dutch architect, educator, and theorist. His major contributions are in the field of mass housing and the integration of users and residents into the design process.In 1960, Habraken designed the WOBO (World Bottle) for Alfred Heineken. The WOBO is a stackable beer bottle capable of building a bottle wall. Initially developed in response to the lack of affordable building materials and the inadequate living conditions plaguing Curaçao's lower-class, the WOBO is a pioneering example of industrialized recycling and adaptive reuse of materials.

Was an Iranian-born architect, writer, and humanitarian who received his philosophy and architectura

Was an Iranian-born architect, writer, and humanitarian who received his philosophy and architectural education in Iran, Turkey and the United States.In 1970 he was licensed by the State of California and practiced architecture in the U.S. and around the world. Khalili was known for his innovation into the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the Earthbag Construction technique called Super Adobe. He was involved with Earth Architecture and Third World Development since 1975, and was a U.N. consultant for Earth Architecture.

Was an architect working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the Victorian and Edwardian period

Was an architect working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.Barnet was born in the Melbourne Hospital on Swanston Street 1855, son of a Polish-born pawnbroker, jeweller and tobacconist. He was an active member of Melbourne's Jewish community, serving on many committees and often writing letters to the Jewish press.He produced a number of significant buildings including Her Majesty's Theatre (1886), Austral Building (1891), St Kilda Synagogue re-development (1903-04), the former Empire Building (1905) on Flinders Street, the former Auditorium (1912), 280-282 Bourke Street and Alston's Corner (1913) and Georges Department Store (1913) all on Collins Street and the Wertheim Piano Factory in inner suburban Richmond, Melbourne Synagogue (1929) in South Yarra. (The Wertheim factory later became a Heinz factory and, for over 50 years, has been the studios for television station GTV-9.)

Is a Dutch architect, lecturer and urbanist. In 1991 together with Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs she

Is a Dutch architect, lecturer and urbanist. In 1991 together with Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs she set up MVRDV. Early work such as the television centre Villa VPRO and the housing estate for elderly WoZoCo, both in the Netherlands, have brought her international acclaim and established MVRDV’s leading role in international architecture.

Is an American fashion designer and contestant on the second season of the reality television progra

Is an American fashion designer and contestant on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway. He is openly gay[1] and is currently the contributing fashion editor of Frontiers magazine.

Was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi Fountain in Rome, where he was born and died. His

Was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi Fountain in Rome, where he was born and died. His work is in the late Roman Baroque style. In addition to the Trevi Fountain, Salvi did minor works such as churches and the enlargement of the Odescalchi P

Was a Romanian engineer and industrialist.

Was a Romanian engineer and industrialist.

Was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who did pioneering work in the field of telegraphy and teleph

Was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who did pioneering work in the field of telegraphy and telephony. He also had notable achievements in mechanical engineering, elasticity, thermodynamics, long distance telephony, electrochemistry, and civil engineering.

Was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and worked seventeen years in Denm

Was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and worked seventeen years in Denmark as an architect to the royal court. He introduced neoclassicism to Denmark. According to Jardin’s own statement he began his architectural studies at the age of ten. It is confirmed by independent source that he started his training at the French Academy of Art (Académie Francaise) no later than in 1738, perhaps before. He studied under A.C. Mollet, and won the grand prize (Prix de Rome) for architecture at 22 years of age for his design of a choir or chancel in a cathedral.

Was a Russian civil engineer, teacher, aerospace researcher, author, historian, and promoter of spac

Was a Russian civil engineer, teacher, aerospace researcher, author, historian, and promoter of space travel.

Was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist), designer, graphic artist and scenographer

Was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist), designer, graphic artist and scenographer. Nina Genke was born in Moscow. Her father Genrikh Genke was Dutch, and her mother Nadezhda Tikhanova was Russian.

A Japanese architect.Okabe, then the representative of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Japan, won t

A Japanese architect.Okabe, then the representative of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Japan, won the international competition of Kansai International Airport Terminal Building in 1988 and was responsible for the design and construction supervision.After the construction of the Terminal Building, he established Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network in 1995 in Tokyo. Now, he has been expanding the design activity from architecture to industrial design, such as train, Odakyu Romance Car series 50000 VSE (Odakyu Odawara Line).