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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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   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   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   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



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