Parrots and Monkeys (1879)

When Big Architects Were Little Kids is Greg Constantine’s attempt to recall his own beginnings as a creative person imagining how famous artists and architects may have started out. He remembers filling all his school workbooks with drawings of sports, airplanes, cars and fighting soldiers. This became such a problem that pencils and paper were taken from him in order to focus attention on the necessary academic subjects.Art not only survived in his life, but prospered in his pursuit to express his vision. Most artists and architects have passed through a measure of this experience, ultimately making them stronger and more determined to follow their obsession.Constantine has used some actual biographical incidents from many of these architects’ early lives attempting to reveal logical parallels that make a connection to their well-known mature work.THE ARCHITECTSIktinos & Kallikrates, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andre Le Notre, George E Haussmann, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Jeanneret (Corbu), Andrea Palladio, Filippo Brunelleschi, Thomas Jefferson, Antonio Gaudi, Walter Gropius, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gustave Eiffel, Leonardo da Vinci, Louis Sullivan, Eero Saarinen, Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Sir Christopher Wren.