Hasta La Ideas

Barcelona-based architect Federico Babina has commemorated 33 well-known architects—among the honored are Charles Eames, Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rem Koolhaus—in illustrated portrait series titled “Archiportrait.” The illustrations present themselves as mini puzzles featuring famed staircases, window panes, support structures, entire buildings and more. In short, any renowned architectural form you can think of is hidden with these faces. While we’ve cracked (parts of) nine portraits for you, there are still 24 left open for your own interpretations.

The colorful, tiled roof of the Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona is re-imagined as the facial hair of the architect

Corbusier’s portrait features The Palace of Justice in Chandigarh, India (top) and Church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy, France (bottom)

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