How Google Doodles Celebrate Architects and Architecture?

How Google Doodles Celebrate Architects and Architecture?

1998 was the year internet giant Google began manipulating their iconic logo in celebration of several national and international holidays. Since then,  Google Doodles have been celebrating the works of several famous figures, from actors and artists to political figures, and even architects and designers. We have selected some of our favorites below sorted by year.

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The Origin Story of Google Doodles:

The first Google doodle was in celebration of the Burning Man Festival.  At the time, designers Larry Page and Sergey Brin were planning on attending the festival. Thus, by adding the burning man logo behind the second “O” in Google the designers could attend the event. It also allowed them to warn users that they would be absent, in case of the servers crashing. Since that fateful day, Google has been using Google Doodles to celebrate important people and moments in history.

The Doodles did not usually have hyperlinks or animations in the beginning, but with time this became the norm. Until today, there are over 2000 local and International Doodles appearing on Google’s homepage periodically.

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2005

June 8th – 138th Birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright

 

2008

May 17th – 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

 

October 30th – 35th Anniversary of Sydney Opera House Opening

 

2009

November 17th – 105th Birthday of Isamu Noguchi

 

2010

September 4th – 5th Anniversary of the Bucky Ball

2011

July 12th – 450th Anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral

 

 

August 4th – 102nd Birthday of Robert Burle Marx.

 

 

December 15th – 83rd Birthday of Friedensreich Hundertwasser

 

 

2012

March 27th – 126th Birthday of Mies Van der Rohe

 

 

April 18th – 75th Birthday of Jan Kaplicky

 

 

April 21st – Anniversary of Brasilia

 

 

May 27th – Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge

 

 

2013

January 9th – 150th Anniversary of the Tube

 

 

April 3rd – 150th Birthday of Henry van de Velde

 

 

May 20th – 125th Anniversary of the Exposición Universal de Barcelona

 

 

June 25th – 161st Birthday of Antoni Gaudi

 

 

September 4th – 100th Birthday of Kenzo Tange

 

 

2014

January 15th – 255th Anniversary of the British Museum

 

 

January 27th – 200th Birthday of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

 

 

August 6th – 94th Birthday of Anna Castelli Ferrieri

 

 

October 20th – 382nd Birthday of Christopher Wren

2015

March 31st – 126th Anniversary of the Public Opening of the Eiffel Tower

 

 

August 5th – 101st Anniversary of the First Electrical Traffic Signal

2016

January 19th – 127th Birthday of Sophie Taeuber-Arp

 

 

March 4th – 42nd Anniversary of Rio-Niteroi Bridge opening

 

 

May 4th – 100th Birthday of Jane Jacobs

 

2017

 

May 31st – First Female Pritzker Prize Winner Zaha Hadid

 

All Images via Google Doodles.

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