| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
Alvar Aalto
|
Architect |
Finnish modernist architect, furniture designer |
03-Feb-1898 |
11-May-1976 |
DEAD
|
Robert Adam
|
Architect |
Scottish Neoclassical architect |
03-Jul-1728 |
03-Mar-1792 |
DEAD
|
| Harold L. Adams
|
Architect |
CEO of RTKL Associates, 1971-2002 |
1939 |
TBD |
|
Leon Battista Alberti
|
Architect |
Ten Books on Architecture |
14-Feb-1404 |
25-Apr-1472 |
DEAD
|
| Christopher Alexander
|
Architect |
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
04-Oct-1936 |
TBD |
|
Bartolommeo Ammannati
|
Architect |
Designed the Pitti Palace |
18-Jun-1511 |
22-Apr-1592 |
DEAD
|
Peter Behrens
|
Architect |
Invented corporate identity |
14-Apr-1868 |
27-Feb-1940 |
DEAD
|
Francesco Borromini
|
Architect |
Italian baroque architect |
25-Sep-1599 |
02-Aug-1667 |
DEAD
|
Donato Bramante
|
Architect |
Designed St. Peter's Basilica |
1444 |
11-Mar-1514 |
DEAD
|
Filippo Brunelleschi
|
Architect |
Florentine Renaissance architect |
1377 |
15-Apr-1446 |
DEAD
|
Charles Bulfinch
|
Architect |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
08-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
DEAD
|
Daniel H. Burnham
|
Architect |
Built skyscrapers and planned cities |
04-Sep-1846 |
01-Jun-1912 |
DEAD
|
| Santiago Calatrava
|
Architect |
Designer of new WTC transit station |
28-Jul-1951 |
TBD |
|
Sir William Chambers
|
Architect |
Treatise of Civil Architecture |
1723 |
08-Mar-1796 |
DEAD
|
Le Corbusier
|
Architect |
Most influential 20th century architect |
06-Oct-1887 |
27-Aug-1965 |
DEAD
|
Lùcio Costa
|
Architect |
Designed the city of Brasilia |
27-Feb-1902 |
13-Jun-1998 |
DEAD
|
Gustave Eiffel
|
Architect |
Designer of Eiffel Tower |
15-Dec-1832 |
27-Dec-1923 |
DEAD
|
| Norman Foster
|
Architect |
Architect of the Milennium Bridge |
01-Jun-1935 |
TBD |
|
R. Buckminster Fuller
|
Architect |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
12-Jul-1895 |
01-Jul-1983 |
DEAD
|
Antoni Gaudi
|
Architect |
La Sagrada Familia |
25-Jun-1852 |
10-Jun-1926 |
DEAD
|
| Frank Gehry
|
Architect |
Postmodern architect |
28-Feb-1929 |
TBD |
|
George Goethals
|
Architect |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
DEAD
|
| Temple Grandin
|
Architect |
Autistic slaughterhouse designer |
29-Aug-1947 |
TBD |
|
Walter Gropius
|
Architect |
Founder of the Bauhaus school |
18-May-1883 |
05-Jul-1969 |
DEAD
|
Victor Gruen
|
Architect |
Popularized the shopping mall |
18-Jul-1903 |
14-Feb-1980 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Aloysius Hansom
|
Architect |
Invented the Hansom Cab |
26-Oct-1803 |
29-Jun-1882 |
DEAD
|
Nicholas Hawksmoor
|
Architect |
Worked with Wren and Vanbrugh |
1661 |
25-Mar-1736 |
DEAD
|
Josef Hoffmann
|
Architect |
Vienna Secession architect |
15-Dec-1870 |
07-May-1956 |
DEAD
|
Clifford Holland
|
Architect |
Chief engineer, Holland Tunnel |
13-Mar-1883 |
27-Oct-1924 |
DEAD
|
Victor Horta
|
Architect |
Art Nouveau architect |
06-Jan-1861 |
09-Sep-1947 |
DEAD
|
Harriet Irwin
|
Architect |
Designer of hexagonal houses |
1828 |
1897 |
DEAD
|
Philip Johnson
|
Architect |
The Glass House |
08-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
DEAD
|
Inigo Jones
|
Architect |
The English Palladio |
15-Jul-1573 |
05-Jul-1651 |
DEAD
|
Louis Kahn
|
Architect |
Prominent architect |
20-Feb-1901 |
17-Mar-1974 |
DEAD
|
William Kent
|
Architect |
Influential landscape gardener |
1685 |
12-Apr-1748 |
DEAD
|
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
|
Architect |
Designed Washington, DC |
02-Aug-1754 |
14-Jun-1825 |
DEAD
|
Denys Lasdun
|
Architect |
British modernist architect |
08-Sep-1914 |
11-Jan-2001 |
DEAD
|
Benjamin Latrobe
|
Architect |
Designed the US Capitol |
01-May-1764 |
03-Sep-1820 |
DEAD
|
Ferdinand de Lesseps
|
Architect |
Built the Suez Canal |
19-Nov-1805 |
07-Dec-1894 |
DEAD
|
| Maya Lin
|
Architect |
Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
05-Oct-1959 |
TBD |
|
Adolf Loos
|
Architect |
Ornament and Crime |
10-Dec-1870 |
08-Aug-1933 |
DEAD
|
Edwin Lutyens
|
Architect |
Laid the plan for New Delhi |
29-Mar-1869 |
01-Jan-1944 |
DEAD
|
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
|
Architect |
Glasgow Style designer |
07-Jun-1868 |
10-Dec-1928 |
DEAD
|
François Mansart
|
Architect |
17th c. French Baroque architect |
00-Jan-1598 |
00-Sep-1666 |
DEAD
|
| Thom Mayne
|
Architect |
Architect, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner |
1943 |
TBD |
|
| William McDonough
|
Architect |
Environmentalist Architect |
1951 |
TBD |
|
Robert Mills
|
Architect |
Washington Monument |
12-Aug-1781 |
03-Mar-1855 |
DEAD
|
Julia Morgan
|
Architect |
Designed Hearst Castle |
20-Jan-1872 |
02-Feb-1957 |
DEAD
|
John Nash
|
Architect |
British Regency architect |
1752 |
13-May-1835 |
DEAD
|
Pier Luigi Nervi
|
Architect |
Experimented with reinforced concrete |
21-Jun-1891 |
09-Jan-1979 |
DEAD
|
| Oscar Niemeyer
|
Architect |
Architect of Brasilia |
15-Dec-1907 |
TBD |
|
Frederick Law Olmsted
|
Architect |
Designed New York's Central Park |
27-Apr-1822 |
28-Aug-1903 |
DEAD
|
Andrea Palladio
|
Architect |
The Four Books of Architecture |
30-Nov-1518 |
19-Aug-1580 |
DEAD
|
| I. M. Pei
|
Architect |
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
26-Apr-1917 |
TBD |
|
Baldassarre Peruzzi
|
Architect |
Sienese architect, quadratura painter |
07-Mar-1481 |
06-Jan-1536 |
DEAD
|
| Renzo Piano
|
Architect |
Designed the Pompidou Center rehab |
14-Sep-1937 |
TBD |
|
Augustus Welby Pugin
|
Architect |
Built the Houses of Parliament |
01-Mar-1812 |
14-Sep-1852 |
DEAD
|
| Richard Rogers
|
Architect |
Designed Centre Pompidou |
23-Jul-1933 |
TBD |
|
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
|
Architect |
The Glass Skyscraper |
27-Mar-1886 |
17-Aug-1969 |
DEAD
|
Paul Rudolph
|
Architect |
Modernist architect |
23-Oct-1918 |
08-Aug-1997 |
DEAD
|
Eero Saarinen
|
Architect |
Designed IBM's Watson Research Centre |
20-Aug-1910 |
01-Sep-1961 |
DEAD
|
Eliel Saarinen
|
Architect |
Finnish-American art nouveau architect |
20-Aug-1873 |
01-Jul-1950 |
DEAD
|
Richard Norman Shaw
|
Architect |
Late 19th c. British architect |
07-May-1831 |
17-Nov-1912 |
DEAD
|
Peter Denham Smithson
|
Architect |
New Brutalist |
18-Sep-1923 |
03-Mar-2003 |
DEAD
|
Albert Speer
|
Architect |
Hitler's architect |
19-Mar-1905 |
01-Sep-1981 |
DEAD
|
James Stirling
|
Architect |
Pritzker-winning architect |
22-Apr-1926 |
25-Jun-1992 |
DEAD
|
George Edmund Street
|
Architect |
English Gothic revival architect |
20-Jun-1824 |
18-Dec-1881 |
DEAD
|
Louis Sullivan
|
Architect |
Early skyscraper architect |
03-Sep-1856 |
14-Apr-1924 |
DEAD
|
| Sarah Susanka
|
Architect |
The Not So Big House |
1957 |
TBD |
|
Kenzo Tange
|
Architect |
Designed Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima |
04-Sep-1913 |
22-Mar-2005 |
DEAD
|
William Thornton
|
Architect |
First architect of the US Capitol |
20-May-1759 |
28-Mar-1828 |
DEAD
|
Frank Turner
|
Architect |
Designer, Interstate Highway System |
1908 |
02-Oct-1999 |
DEAD
|
Louis Le Vau
|
Architect |
Architect for Louis XIV |
1612 |
1670 |
DEAD
|
Henri Van De Velde
|
Architect |
Art Nouveau architect |
03-Apr-1863 |
15-Oct-1957 |
DEAD
|
| Robert Venturi
|
Architect |
Postmodernist architect |
25-Jun-1925 |
TBD |
|
Christopher Wren
|
Architect |
Designed St. Paul's Cathedral |
20-Oct-1632 |
25-Feb-1723 |
DEAD
|
Frank Lloyd Wright
|
Architect |
America's most famous architect |
08-Jun-1867 |
09-Apr-1959 |
DEAD
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