Architect
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"Architect" is used for individual contributors to the Built Environment. Also see the type "Architecture Firm" for collections of architects. A topic that is of the type "Structure" can have one or more "Architects" or "Architecture...
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| Albert Speer |
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Person | Volkshalle |
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (; 19 March 1905 1 September 1981), was an architect, author and, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".
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| Film writer | Tempelhof International Airport | ||||
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| Anthemius of Tralles | Person | Hagia Sophia |
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – c. 534) (Greek ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople (present-day Instanbul in Turkey) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of...
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| Alvar Aalto |
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Person | Finlandia Hall, Helsinki | Modern architecture |
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 — May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Scandinavian countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware.
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| Deceased Person | Helsinki University of Technology | Mid-century modern | |||
| Employer | Villa Mairea | ||||
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| Antoni Gaudí |
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Person | Sagrada Familia | Art Nouveau |
Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – was a Catalan architect who belonged to the Modernist style (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for...
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| Deceased Person | Park Güell | Organic architecture | |||
| Influence Node | Casa Batlló | ||||
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| Andreas Schlüter |
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Andreas Schlüter (20 May 1664 in Hamburg – May 1714) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.
The early life of the sculptor Andreas Schlüter is obscured as at least three...
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| Buckminster Fuller |
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Person | Sustainable architecture |
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa. He lends his name to a family of complex carbon structures called...
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| Bartolomeo Ammanati |
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Person | Fountain of Neptune |
Bartolomeo Ammanati (June 18 1511 - April 13 1592) was a Florentine architect and sculptor.
Ammanati was born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the...
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| Christopher Alexander | Person | Eishin Campus |
Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world. Reasoning that users know more about the...
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| Eugène Viollet-le-Duc |
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Person | Notre Dame de Paris |
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (January 27 1814 – September 17, 1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his "restorations" of medieval buildings. Born in Paris, he was as central a figure in the Gothic Revival in France as he was in...
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Person | Ennis House | Modern architecture |
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8 1867 – April 9 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator who designed more than 1,000 projects, of which more than 500 resulted in completed works.
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| Deceased Person | Fallingwater | Organic architecture | |||
| Influence Node | Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio | ||||
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| Francesco Borromini |
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Person | Palazzo Barberini |
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli (b. Bissone, Ticino, September 25, 1599; Rome, August 3, 1667) was a prominent and influential Italian Swiss Baroque architect in Rome.
Son of the stone mason Giovanni Domenico Castelli and...
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| Deceased Person | Palazzo Spada | ||||
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| Gustave Eiffel |
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Person | Eiffel Tower |
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 13, 1832 – December 27, 1923; in French , in English usually ) was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889...
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| Deceased Person | Statue of Liberty | ||||
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| Galeazzo Alessi |
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Galeazzo Alessi (1512 - December 30, 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the...
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| Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
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Person | Sant'Andrea al Quirinale |
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome.
Bernini was born in Naples to a capable Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence. At the age...
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| Visual Artist | Palazzo Barberini | ||||
| Deceased Person | Palazzo Montecitorio | ||||
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| Gerrit Rietveld |
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Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (June 24, 1888–June 26, 1964) was a Dutch furniture design and architect.
In 1916, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture. Rietveld designed the Red and Blue Chair in 1917, but changed its...
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| Iktinos | Person | Parthenon |
Iktinos (or Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Iktinos and Kallikrates as co-architects of the Parthenon.
Pausanias identifies Iktinos as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. That temple was...
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| Isidore of Miletus | Person | Hagia Sophia |
Isidore of Miletus (Ισίδωρος ο Μιλήσιος,in Greek) was one of the two Greek architects (the other being Anthemius of Tralles) who designed the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (what is today Istanbul in Turkey).
The Emperor Justinian I...
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| I. M. Pei |
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Person | Place Ville-Marie |
Ieoh Ming Pei (b. April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using stone,...
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| Architecture firm partner | National Center for Atmospheric Research | ||||
| Film actor | Hale Manoa Dormitory | ||||
| Award Winner | Luce Memorial Chapel | ||||
| Company Founder | Society Hill Towers | ||||
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| Kallikrates | Person | Parthenon |
Kallikrates (also spelled Callicrates) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BCE. He and Iktinos were architect of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13) . An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the...
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| Sanctuary of Athena Nike | |||||
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
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Person | Seagram Building | Modern architecture |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-born American architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students and others.
Ludwig...
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| Deceased Person | S.R. Crown Hall | Bauhaus | |||
| Influence Node | Villa Tugendhat | International style | |||
| Author | IBM Plaza | ||||
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| Le Corbusier |
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Person | Villa Savoye | Modern architecture |
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern...
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| Deceased Person | Villa Jeanneret | International style | |||
| Influence Node | Unité d'Habitation | ||||
| Notre Dame du Haut | |||||
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| Leone Battista Alberti |
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Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, his first name is usually spelled "Leon"....
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
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Person | Vebjørn Sand Da Vinci Project | Renaissance architecture |
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Born as the illegitimate son...
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| Maya Lin |
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Person | Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
Maya Ying Lin (; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Her best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Lin was born in Athens, Ohio, daughter of Henry...
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| Michael Ventris | Person |
Michael George Francis Ventris (July 12, 1922 – September 6, 1956) was an English architect and classical scholar who, along with John Chadwick, was responsible for the decipherment of Linear B.
Ventris was educated in Switzerland and at Stowe...
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| Minoru Yamasaki |
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Person | World Trade Center | ||