Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Alvar Aalto |
Architect |
3-Feb-1898 |
11-May-1976 |
Finnish modernist architect, furniture designer |
Max Abramovitz |
Architect |
23-May-1908 |
12-Sep-2004 |
Designed UN Headquarters |
Robert Adam |
Architect |
3-Jul-1728 |
3-Mar-1792 |
Scottish Neoclassical architect |
Harold L. Adams |
Architect |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of RTKL Associates, 1971-2002 |
Leon Battista Alberti |
Architect |
14-Feb-1404 |
25-Apr-1472 |
Ten Books on Architecture |
Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
Bartolommeo Ammannati |
Architect |
18-Jun-1511 |
22-Apr-1592 |
Designed the Pitti Palace |
Peter Behrens |
Architect |
14-Apr-1868 |
27-Feb-1940 |
Invented corporate identity |
Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
Sculptor |
7-Dec-1598 |
28-Nov-1680 |
Baroque sculptor and architect |
Francesco Borromini |
Architect |
25-Sep-1599 |
2-Aug-1667 |
Italian baroque architect |
Donato Bramante |
Architect |
1444 |
11-Mar-1514 |
Designed St. Peter's Basilica |
Marcel Breuer |
Designer |
21-May-1902 |
1-Jul-1981 |
Bauhaus furniture designer |
Filippo Brunelleschi |
Architect |
1377 |
15-Apr-1446 |
Florentine Renaissance architect |
Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
8-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
Gordon Bunshaft |
Architect |
9-May-1909 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Skyscraper architect |
Daniel H. Burnham |
Architect |
4-Sep-1846 |
1-Jun-1912 |
Built skyscrapers and planned cities |
Santiago Calatrava |
Architect |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
Designer of new WTC transit station |
Sir William Chambers |
Architect |
1723 |
8-Mar-1796 |
Treatise of Civil Architecture |
Le Corbusier |
Architect |
6-Oct-1887 |
27-Aug-1965 |
Most influential 20th century architect |
Lùcio Costa |
Architect |
27-Feb-1902 |
13-Jun-1998 |
Designed the city of Brasilia |
Gustave Eiffel |
Architect |
15-Dec-1832 |
27-Dec-1923 |
Designer of Eiffel Tower |
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
Activist |
26-Nov-1931 |
|
Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
Norman Foster |
Architect |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Architect of the Gherkin |
R. Buckminster Fuller |
Architect |
12-Jul-1895 |
1-Jul-1983 |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
Antoni Gaudi |
Architect |
25-Jun-1852 |
10-Jun-1926 |
La Sagrada Família |
Frank Gehry |
Architect |
28-Feb-1929 |
|
Postmodern architect |
Cass Gilbert |
Architect |
24-Nov-1859 |
17-May-1934 |
Woolworth Building |
George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
Bruce J. Graham |
Architect |
1-Dec-1925 |
6-Mar-2010 |
Architect of the Sears Tower |
Temple Grandin |
Architect |
29-Aug-1947 |
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Autistic slaughterhouse designer |
Walter Gropius |
Architect |
18-May-1883 |
5-Jul-1969 |
Founder of the Bauhaus school |
Victor Gruen |
Architect |
18-Jul-1903 |
14-Feb-1980 |
Popularized the shopping mall |
Charles Gwathmey |
Architect |
19-Jun-1938 |
3-Aug-2009 |
Designed extension to the Guggenheim |
Joseph Aloysius Hansom |
Architect |
26-Oct-1803 |
29-Jun-1882 |
Invented the Hansom Cab |
Nicholas Hawksmoor |
Architect |
c. 1661 |
25-Mar-1736 |
Worked with Wren and Vanbrugh |
James Hoban |
Architect |
c. 1758 |
8-Dec-1831 |
Architect of the White House |
Chuck Hoberman |
Inventor |
1956 |
|
Creator of unfolding structures |
Josef Hoffmann |
Architect |
15-Dec-1870 |
7-May-1956 |
Vienna Secession architect |
Clifford Holland |
Architect |
13-Mar-1883 |
27-Oct-1924 |
Chief engineer, Holland Tunnel |
Raymond Hood |
Architect |
29-Mar-1881 |
14-Aug-1934 |
Chicago Tribune Tower |
Victor Horta |
Architect |
6-Jan-1861 |
9-Sep-1947 |
Art Nouveau architect |
Imhotep |
Architect |
c. 3000 BC |
c. 2950 BC |
Commoner who became a God |
Harriet Irwin |
Architect |
1828 |
1897 |
Designer of hexagonal houses |
Philip Johnson |
Architect |
8-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
The Glass House |
Inigo Jones |
Architect |
15-Jul-1573 |
5-Jul-1651 |
The English Palladio |
Albert Kahn |
Architect |
21-Mar-1869 |
8-Dec-1942 |
Detroit architect, factory designer |
Louis Kahn |
Architect |
20-Feb-1901 |
17-Mar-1974 |
Prominent architect |
William Kent |
Architect |
1685 |
12-Apr-1748 |
Influential landscape gardener |
Pierre Charles L'Enfant |
Architect |
2-Aug-1754 |
14-Jun-1825 |
Designed Washington, DC |
Denys Lasdun |
Architect |
8-Sep-1914 |
11-Jan-2001 |
British modernist architect |
Benjamin Latrobe |
Architect |
1-May-1764 |
3-Sep-1820 |
Designed the US Capitol |
Ferdinand de Lesseps |
Architect |
19-Nov-1805 |
7-Dec-1894 |
Built the Suez Canal |
Adolf Loos |
Architect |
10-Dec-1870 |
8-Aug-1933 |
Ornament and Crime |
Edwin Lutyens |
Architect |
29-Mar-1869 |
1-Jan-1944 |
Laid the plan for New Delhi |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Architect |
7-Jun-1868 |
10-Dec-1928 |
Glasgow Style designer |
François Mansart |
Architect |
Jan-1598 |
Sep-1666 |
17th c. French Baroque architect |
Thom Mayne |
Architect |
1943 |
|
Architect, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner |
William McDonough |
Architect |
1951 |
|
Environmentalist Architect |
Michelangelo |
Sculptor |
6-Mar-1475 |
18-Feb-1564 |
Renaissance sculptor and painter |
Robert Mills |
Architect |
12-Aug-1781 |
3-Mar-1855 |
Washington Monument |
Julia Morgan |
Architect |
20-Jan-1872 |
2-Feb-1957 |
Designed Hearst Castle |
John Nash |
Architect |
1752 |
13-May-1835 |
British Regency architect |
Pier Luigi Nervi |
Architect |
21-Jun-1891 |
9-Jan-1979 |
Experimented with reinforced concrete |
Oscar Niemeyer |
Architect |
15-Dec-1907 |
|
Architect of Brasilia |
Frederick Law Olmsted |
Architect |
26-Apr-1822 |
28-Aug-1903 |
Designed New York's Central Park |
Andrea Palladio |
Architect |
30-Nov-1518 |
19-Aug-1580 |
The Four Books of Architecture |
I. M. Pei |
Architect |
26-Apr-1917 |
|
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
Baldassarre Peruzzi |
Architect |
7-Mar-1481 |
6-Jan-1536 |
Sienese architect, quadratura painter |
Renzo Piano |
Architect |
14-Sep-1937 |
|
Designed the Pompidou Center rehab |
Andrea Pisano |
Sculptor |
c. 1270 |
1348 |
South Baptistery doors in Florence |
Giovanni Pisano |
Sculptor |
c. 1250 |
c. 1314 |
Gothic Italian sculptor |
Nicola Pisano |
Sculptor |
c. 1220 |
c. 1278 |
Classical Italian sculptor |
Augustus Welby Pugin |
Architect |
1-Mar-1812 |
14-Sep-1852 |
Built the Houses of Parliament |
James Renwick |
Architect |
11-Nov-1818 |
23-Jun-1895 |
Gothic Revival architect |
Richard Rogers |
Architect |
23-Jul-1933 |
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Designed Centre Pompidou |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Architect |
27-Mar-1886 |
17-Aug-1969 |
The Glass Skyscraper |
Paul Rudolph |
Architect |
23-Oct-1918 |
8-Aug-1997 |
Brutalist architect |
Eero Saarinen |
Architect |
20-Aug-1910 |
1-Sep-1961 |
Designed Gateway Arch in St. Louis |
Eliel Saarinen |
Architect |
20-Aug-1873 |
1-Jul-1950 |
Finnish-American art nouveau architect |
Richard Norman Shaw |
Architect |
7-May-1831 |
17-Nov-1912 |
Late 19th c. British architect |
Louis Skidmore |
Architect |
8-Apr-1897 |
27-Sep-1962 |
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill |
John Smibert |
Painter |
24-Mar-1688 |
2-Apr-1751 |
The Bermuda Group |
Alison Smithson |
Architect |
22-Jun-1928 |
14-Aug-1993 |
New Brutalist |
Peter Denham Smithson |
Architect |
18-Sep-1923 |
3-Mar-2003 |
New Brutalist |
Albert Speer |
Architect |
19-Mar-1905 |
1-Sep-1981 |
Hitler's architect |
Rudolf Steiner |
Philosopher |
25-Feb-1861 |
30-Mar-1925 |
Anthroposophical Society |
James Stirling |
Architect |
22-Apr-1926 |
25-Jun-1992 |
Pritzker-winning architect |
George Edmund Street |
Architect |
20-Jun-1824 |
18-Dec-1881 |
English Gothic revival architect |
William Strickland |
Architect |
Nov-1788 |
6-Apr-1854 |
Greek and Gothic Revival architect |
Louis Sullivan |
Architect |
3-Sep-1856 |
14-Apr-1924 |
Early skyscraper architect |
Sarah Susanka |
Architect |
c. 1957 |
|
The Not So Big House |
Kenzo Tange |
Architect |
4-Sep-1913 |
22-Mar-2005 |
Designed Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima |
Vladimir Tatlin |
Sculptor |
16-Dec-1885 |
31-May-1953 |
Monument to the Third International |
William Thornton |
Architect |
20-May-1759 |
28-Mar-1828 |
First architect of the US Capitol |
Frank Turner |
Architect |
1908 |
2-Oct-1999 |
Designer, Interstate Highway System |
Richard Upjohn |
Architect |
22-Jan-1802 |
16-Aug-1878 |
Gothic revivalist, Trinity Church |
Jørn Utzon |
Architect |
9-Apr-1918 |
29-Nov-2008 |
Sydney Opera House |
John Vanbrugh |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1664 |
26-Mar-1726 |
The Provok'd Wife |
Louis Le Vau |
Architect |
1612 |
1670 |
Architect for Louis XIV |
Henri Van De Velde |
Architect |
3-Apr-1863 |
15-Oct-1957 |
Art Nouveau architect |
Robert Venturi |
Architect |
25-Jun-1925 |
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Postmodernist architect |
Christopher Wren |
Architect |
20-Oct-1632 |
25-Feb-1723 |
Designed St. Paul's Cathedral |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Architect |
8-Jun-1867 |
9-Apr-1959 |
Fallingwater |