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Notable Architects

  • Aalto, Alvar, Finnish architect and furniture designer

  • Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, British architect and town planner

  • Adam, Robert, and James Adam, Scottish architects

  • Alberti, Leone Battista, Italian architect, musician, painter, and humanist

  • Ando, Tadao, Japanese architect

  • Androuet du Cerceau, family of French architects

  • Anthemius of Tralles, Greek architect, engineer, and mathematician

  • Apollodorus of Damascus, Roman architect and engineer

  • Arnolfo di Cambio, Italian architect and sculptor

  • Bacon, Henry, American architect

  • Barry, Sir Charles, English architect

  • Behrens, Peter, German architect

  • Belluschi, Pietro, Italian-American civil engineer

  • Benjamin, Asher, American architect

  • Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, Italian sculptor and architect

  • Bodley, George Frederick, English architect

  • Bogardus, James, American architect

  • Böhm, Dominikus, German architect

  • Borromini, Francesco, Italian baroque architect

  • Bramante, Donato, Italian Renaissance architect and painter

  • Breuer, Marcel Lajos, American architect and furniture designer

  • Brosse, Salomon de, French architect

  • Brunelleschi, Filippo, Italian Renaissance architect

  • Bulfinch, Charles, American architect

  • Bunshaft, Gordon, American architect

  • Burnham, Daniel Hudson, American architect and city planner

  • Calatrava, Santiago, Spanish architect

  • Callicrates, Greek architect

  • Campbell, Colin, Scottish architect

  • Carrère, John Merven, American architect

  • Chalgrin, Jean François, French architect

  • Chambers, Sir William, English architect

  • Churriguera, José Benito, Spanish architect and sculptor

  • Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da, Italian baroque painter and architect

  • Costa, Lûcio, Brazilian architect

  • Cram, Ralph Adams, American architect

  • Davis, Alexander Jackson, American architect

  • Delorme, Philibert, French architect

  • Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, Austrian baroque architect

  • Flagg, Ernest, American architect

  • Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, French architect

  • Fontana, Carlo, Italian architect

  • Fontana, Domenico, Italian architect

  • Foster, Norman Robert, British architect,

  • Fuller, R. Buckminster, American architect and engineer

  • Gabriel, Jacques Ange, French architect

  • Garnier, Jean Louis Charles, French architect

  • Gaudí i Cornet, Antonio, Spanish architect

  • Gehry, Frank Owen, American architect

  • Gibbs, James, English architect

  • Gilbert, Cass, American architect

  • Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, American architect

  • Graves, Michael, American architect

  • Greene and Greene, American architectural firm

  • Gropius, Walter, German-American architect

  • Guarini, Guarino, Italian architect

  • Guimard, Hector, French architect and furniture designer

  • Harrison, Wallace Kirkman, American architect and city planner

  • Hastings, Thomas, American architect

  • Hawksmoor, Nicholas, English architect

  • Hoban, James, American architect

  • Hunt, Richard Morris, American architect

  • Ictinus, Greek architect

  • Isozaki, Arata, Japanese architect

  • Johnson, Philip Cortelyou, American architect, museum curator, and historian

  • Jones, Inigo, England architect

  • Juvarra, Filippo, Italian architect

  • Kahn, Louis Isadore, American architect

  • Koolhaas, Rem, Dutch architect

  • Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, American architect

  • Le Corbusier, French architect

  • Le Vau, Louis, French architect

  • Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, French architect

  • Lescot, Pierre, French Renaissance architect

  • Libeskind, Daniel, American architect

  • Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer, English architect

  • Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, Scottish architect

  • Mansart, François, French architect

  • Mansart, Jules Hardouin, French architect

  • Maybeck, Bernard, American architect

  • McComb, John, American architect

  • McIntire, Samuel, American architect and woodcarver

  • McKim, Charles Follen, American architect

  • Meier, Richard, American architect

  • Mendelsohn, Erich, German architect

  • Meyer, Hannes, Swiss architect

  • Michelozzo Michelozzi, Italian sculptor, architect, goldsmith, and founder

  • Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, German-American architect

  • Mills, Robert, American architect

  • Nash, John, English architect

  • Nervi, Pier Luigi, Italian architectural engineer

  • Neutra, Richard Joseph, American architect

  • Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, Brazilian architect

  • Otto, Frei, German architect

  • Oud, Jacobus Johannes Pieter, Dutch architect

  • Palladio, Andrea, Italian architect of the Renaissance

  • Pei, I. M., Chinese-American architect

  • Pelli, César, American architect,

  • Percier, Charles, French architect

  • Perrault, Claude, French architect

  • Perret, Auguste, French architect

  • Peruzzi, Baldassare, Italian architect and painter

  • Piano, Renzo, Italian architect

  • Platt, Charles Adams, American architect

  • Pope, John Russell, American architect

  • Post, George Browne, American architect

  • Rainaldi, Carlo, Italian architect

  • Renwick, James, American architect

  • Richardson, Henry Hobson, American architect

  • Rogers, James Gamble, American architect

  • Root, John Wellborn, American architect

  • Rudolph, Paul Marvin, American modernist architect

  • Saarinen, Eero, Finnish-American architect

  • Saarinen, Eliel, Finnish-American architect and city planner

  • Safdie, Moshe, Israeli-Canadian architect

  • Sangallo, Italian Renaissance architects

  • Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, German architect and painter

  • Scott, Sir George Gilbert, English architect

  • Semper, Gottfried, German architect

  • Serlio, Sebastiano, Italian Renaissance architect and theoretician

  • Shaw, Richard Norman, English architect

  • Sinan, Muslim architect

  • Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, American architectural firm

  • Smirke, Sir Robert, English architect

  • Smythson, Robert, English architect of the Elizabethan era

  • Soane, Sir John, English architect

  • Soufflot, Jacques Germain, French architect

  • Stern, Robert A. M., American architect

  • Stirling, Sir James Frazer, British architect

  • Stone, Edward Durell, American architect

  • Strickland, William, American architect of the classic revival

  • Sturgis, Russell, American architect and writer

  • Sullivan, Louis Henry, American architect

  • Tange, Kenzo, Japanese architect

  • Thornton, William, American architect

  • Upjohn, Richard, American architect

  • Urban, Joseph Maria, American architect and scene designer

  • Vasari, Giorgio, Italian architect

  • Venturi, Robert, American architect

  • Vignola, Giacomo da, late Renaissance architects in Italy

  • Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel, French architect and writer

  • Wagner, Otto, Austrian architect

  • Walter, Thomas Ustick, American architect

  • Warren, Whitney, American architect

  • Webb, Philip Speakman, English architect

  • White, Stanford, American architect

  • Wood, John, English architect

  • Wren, Sir Christopher, English architect.

  • Wright, Frank Lloyd, American architect,

  • Wurster, William Wilson, American architect

  • Wyatt, James, English architect

  • Yamasaki, Minoru, American architect

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