Where famous architects grew up and lived

Antoni Gaudí1906–1925

📍 Casa Museu Gaudí, Park Güell, Carretera del Carmel 23A, 08024 Barcelona, Spain

I was born in Reus, near Tarragona, the son of a coppersmith, and as a child rheumatism often kept me from playing with other boys, so I spent long hours watching nature — plants, insects…

Frank Lloyd Wright1889–1909

📍 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302, USA

I grew up in Wisconsin, where my mother hung engravings of English cathedrals on my nursery walls and gave me a set of Froebel kindergarten blocks; I played with their maple cubes and…

Le Corbusier1934–1965

📍 24 Rue Nungesser et Coli, 75016 Paris, France

I was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a high watchmaking town in the Swiss Jura, where I trained to engrave watch cases before my teacher steered me towards…

Michelangelo1475–1488

📍 Caprese Michelangelo, AR 52033, Tuscany, Italy

I was born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni on the 6th of March 1475 in Caprese, a small Tuscan village near Arezzo. My mother died when I was six and I was raised by a…

Raphael1483–1495

📍 Via Raffaello 57, 61029 Urbino PU, Marche, Italy

I was born Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino on the 6th of April 1483 in Urbino, the capital of a small duchy in central Italy ruled by the Montefeltro family — one of the most cultivated courts…

Zaha Hadid1950–1968

📍 Baghdad, Iraq

I was born in Baghdad in 1950, into a city that felt modern and hopeful. My parents were from Mosul families and were liberal, outward-looking people; my father, Muhammad Hadid, was an…