Patricia Urquiola

Storming into the field of big names in architecture and interior design, Spanish born designer, Patricia Urquiola, decided her vocation in life at age 12.

“At that young age, I liked the idea of creative work with rigor”, she says.

Patricia Urquiola has certainly applied herself with rigor in the modern design world, and in her own words, was ‘professionally re-born’ in Italy where she is now based. Virtually unknown in Spain, she has crafted a substantial career in Milan working with key figures in the Milanese design fraternity including Magistretti and Castiglioni, who helped blossom her talent.

Enrique Norton

Enrique Norton was born on February 27th, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico. His father came to Mexico as part of the German Jewish diaspora of the 1940s. As a young child, Enrique enjoyed taking apart toys and putting them back together, only to figure out the intricacies of how they worked. This was the making of ingenious child. As a young youth, Enrique’s parents aspired for him to become a doctor or lawyer, but his passion was elsewhere. In 1978 Enrique Norton graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He continued to pursue his education further. Two years later, in 1980 Enrique graduated from the widely acclaimed American architectural college, Cornell University in Ithaco, New York with his Master’s degree of Architecture. Enrique Norton began his professional career as an architect with his first practice in Mexico City, Mexico. It was one year later in 1981, after he obtained his master’s in architecture, that Enrique had become a partner in an architectural firm called Albin y Norton Arquitectos.

Álvaro Siza

Perhaps one of the most admired architects, Álvaro Siza has been inspiring modern design since his humble beginnings, building small home projects in his birth town, Matosinhos in Portugal during the 1950’s. Now, with over half a century of projects in his midst, Siza’s range of architectural interests remains especially broad, from residences to churches, schools, shopping centers, libraries, museums, and occasionally furniture.

His design for the The Iberê Camargo Foundation’s, a monumental project, has been heralded as, arguably, his most outstanding work to date.