Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) was an American architect, artist, theoretician and educator. His father was an Air Force officer, involved in the development and testing of the atomic bomb, dying at the age of 52 from leukemia probably due to radiation poisoning. Woods says, until his father's death, he spent his free time reading, drawing, hanging out around jet aircraft and their pilots. His...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was an Italian author, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. Raised in Egypt where he developed an interest in literature, he was almost expelled for publicizing Zola's scandalous novels in school. He then studied in Paris, later graduating with a law degree in Italy; pursuing his interest in literature then on. He authored the first Futurist...
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She studied philosophy, psychology,