Occupation: Architect
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Occupation: Architect
LISTS
| 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 | 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 |
| J�rn 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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