Federico Babina, whose well of creativity as it relates to architecture-themed projects seems like it will never run dry. Most recently, the Italian artist created illustrations for a partial deck of playing cards with various architects representing the face cards. The main issue that we take with these implied rankings is that they necessarily give preference to male architects over female architects (and also allow for twice as many men as women). But other than that, how do you like Babina's choices?
KINGS: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Kahn
QUEENS: Kazuyo Sejima, Eileen Gray, Zaha Hadid, Charlotte Periand
JACKS: Gerrit Rietveld, Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius
• federico babina's deck of archicards crowns the kings and queens of architecture [design boom]