John Andrews

            John Hamilton Andrews is an architect born in Sydney, New South Wales on October 29, 1933. Andrews is an Australian architect whom is well-known for his He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956. Afterwards he took an architecture program at Harvard University. When he finished his course at Harvard, Andrews worked with John Parkin near Toronto until about 1962. For the following five years, John Andrews was in charge of the architecture program at the University of Toronto. In 1962 he also created John Andrews Architects in Toronto. In 1973, Andrews brought his firm to his hometown of Sydney and renamed it John Andrews International.
            John Andrews’ style of architecture is Exhibitionist Modern. This is an architecture in which the buildings created the look of being intricate and advanced to society. John Andrews uses a lot of concrete and glass. His most famous building is the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. This tower is created completely with concrete and many glass windows. This resembles the work of IM Pei. When comparing the buildings of IM Pei and John Andrews there are plenty of similarities.

 

    Andrews' CN Tower          Intelsat Headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Andrews' deisgn)

    

    King George Tower (Sydney, Australia) 

            However, John Andrews differs greatly from the architectural styles of Antoni Gaudi and Frank Lloyd Wright.  Antoni Gaudi preferred a Spanish style and Frank Lloyd Wright preferred an organic one. John Andrews is completely different from both these with his love for modern architecture. Also both Gaudi and Wright were obsessive over their projects. I’m not saying that Andrews was any less of a hard worker, but he did not obsess over the buildings he created.

            In the end, all four architects produced amazing structures that put their names on the map. The different types of styles that these artists provided society with have changed many people’s outlook on architecture.