Martin Rajniš

Martin Rajniš (born 16 May 1944, Prague) is a Czech architect, urbanist and professor. His architecture design career spans over fifty years and he taught at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague from 1990 a 1997 and later at the Technical University of Liberec. He designed high-tech buildings in the 1980s and 1990s, and since 2000, he shifted the materiality and aesthetics of his designs from steel and concrete to "naturalistic" wood, stone and glass, resulting in a number of experimental and organically shaped structures. Rajniš is critical of engineered communist-era architecture, especially concrete tower blocks.

In 2014 he received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and has multiple nominations for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. Provided by Wikipedia