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x Albert Speer Albert Speer Neurenberg Volkshalle  
Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; ; pronounced [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ( listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich....
Reich Chancellery
Olympic Stadium
x Anthemius of Tralles   Hagia Sophia  
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – before 558; Ancient Greek: Ἀνθέμιος ὁ Τραλλιανός) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of...
Little Hagia Sophia
x Alvar Aalto Alvar Aalto Finlandia Hall, Helsinki Modern architecture
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898, Kuortane – May 11, 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic...
Villa Mairea Mid-century modern
Paimio Sanatorium
Mount Angel Abbey
Vyborg Library
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x Antoni Gaudí Antoni Gaudi 1878 Park Güell Art Nouveau
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely...
Sagrada Familia Organic architecture
Casa Batlló Gothic Revival architecture
Church of Colònia Güell
Casa Calvet
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x Andreas Schlüter Kikin Amber Room  
Andreas Schlüter (20 May 1664 – May 1714) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration. Andreas Schlüter was born in Hamburg His early life is obscure as at least three...
x Buckminster Fuller E5b8f69bc6a6499ff85678756222f8e7-orig.jpg Geodisic Dome, Expo 67, Montreal Sustainable architecture
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as ...
Alloy House
Dymaxion house
R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home
Telus World of Science, Vancouver
x Bartolomeo Ammanati Fountain of Neptune Fountain of Neptune  
Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana,...
San Michele Visdomini
Villa Giulia
Ponte Santa Trinita
San Giovannino degli Scolopi
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x Christopher Alexander   Martinez House  
Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is a registered 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...
Julian Street Inn
Eishin Campus
Sala House
x Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Carcassonne Cathedral Gothic Revival architecture
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn ɛmanɥɛl vjɔlɛ lə dyk]) (27 January 1814–17 September 1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings. Born in Paris, he was a...
Pierresfonds Cathedral
Notre Dame de Paris
Sainte-Chapelle
x Frank Lloyd Wright Frank lloyd wright.jpg Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Modern architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures...
Price Tower Organic architecture
Louis Penfield House Textile Block
Thomas Keys Residence
Herman T. Mossberg Residence
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x Francesco Borromini Borromini (anonymous youth portrait) Palazzo Barberini  
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli (25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667) was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque...
Palazzo Spada
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
Filippini Oratory
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x Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel Statue of Liberty  
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( /ˈaɪfəl/ French pronunciation: [efɛl]) (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923) was a French civil engineer and architect. A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for...
Ponte D. Maria II, Porto
Ponte Eiffel, Viana do Castelo
Viaduct, Beira Alta
Viaduct Sintra,
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x Galeazzo Alessi Alessi's original project for the façade of Palazzo Marino, Milan, altered in the execution San Paolo Converso  
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...
x Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo Bernini Sant'Andrea al Quirinale Baroque architecture
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo) (Naples, 7 December 1598 – Rome, 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In...
Palazzo Barberini
Palazzo Montecitorio
St. Peter's Basilica
x Gerrit Rietveld Rietveld Schröder House Rietveld Schröder House  
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (24 June 1888–25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder...
Van Gogh Museum Rietveld Building
x Iktinos   Parthenon Classical architecture
Ictinus (Greek: Ικτίνος, Iktinos) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. Pausanias identifies Ictinus as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae....
Bassae
Temple of Hephaestus
x Isidore of Miletus   Hagia Sophia  
Isidore of Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537A.D. Isidore of Miletus was a...
Little Hagia Sophia
x I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei Pitney Bowes Worldwide Headquarters High-Tech Architecture
Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture. Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from...
Baltimore World Trade Center
The Gateway, Singapore
Paul Mellon Arts Center
Dallas City Hall
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x Kallikrates   Parthenon Classical architecture
Callicrates (Greek: Καλλικράτης, Kallikratēs) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BCE. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13). An inscription identifies him as the architect of ...
Sanctuary of Athena Nike
Athena Nike
x Ludwig Mies van der Rohe   1300 Lafayette East Cooperative International style
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. Along with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, he is...
2345 Grand Modern architecture
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments Bauhaus
Barcelona Pavilion
Brown Pavilion
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x Le Corbusier 10 francs Ville Contemporaine International style
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (French pronunciation: [lə kɔʁbyzje]; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist,and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern...
Tsentrosoyuz building Modern architecture
Sanskar Kendra
Pavillon Suisse
Sainte Marie de La Tourette
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x Leone Battista Alberti Leon Battista Alberti Palazzo Rucellai  
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Although he is often characterized as an "architect"...
Tempio Malatestiano
S Andrea,Mantua
S Sebastiano
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
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x Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo self Château de Fontainebleau Renaissance architecture
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been...
x Maya Lin Maya Lin 1 Vietnam Veterans Memorial  
Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin, a Chinese American, was born in...
Civil Rights Memorial
x Michael Ventris      
Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE (12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans. A prodigy...
x Minoru Yamasaki Minoru Yamasaki One Woodward Avenue High-Tech Architecture
Minoru Yamasaki (山崎 實, Yamasaki Minoru, December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986) was a Japanese-American architect, best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent...
Torre Picasso Modern architecture
BOK Tower
Rainier Tower
M&T Bank Center, Buffalo
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x Mario Botta Harting Minden Teatro alla Scala  
Mario Botta (born April 1, 1943) is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano. Botta...
Deccan Park
x Michelangelo Michelangelo St. Peter's Basilica  
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an...
Palazzo Farnese
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
Capitoline Museums
Porta Pia
x Sir Norman Foster Norman Foster dresden 061110 Creek Vean House, Feock, Cornwall Sustainable architecture
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM Kt. (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners. Foster was raised in Manchester in a working-class family and was...
Torre de Collserola High-Tech Architecture
Faculty of Law, Cambridge
Dresden Hauptbahnhof
Commerzbank Tower
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x Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas IIT Campus Center  
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (English pronunciation: /ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born (1944-11-17)17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at...
Maison a Bordeaux
Torre Bicentenario
CCTV Headquarters
Casa da Música
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x Renzo Piano St. Pio Church Centre Georges Pompidou Sustainable architecture
Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that...
New York Times Building High-Tech Architecture
Aurora Place
Shard London Bridge
Piano buildings
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x Rudolf Steiner Steiner um 1905 Second Goetheanum Organic architecture
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25/27 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the...
Goetheanum Expressionist architecture
x Thomas Jefferson T Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale 1791 2 Monticello  
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the...
Farmington
Ash Lawn-Highland
The Rotunda
Virginia State Capitol
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x Villard de Honnecourt Chausses with poleyns, from an illustration by Villard de Honnecourt (13th century)    
Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, fol. 1v; Vilars de Honecourt, fol. 15v) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment containing about 250...
x Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Marcus  Vitruvius Pollio    
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ("On Architecture"). By his own...
x William Morris William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement Red House  
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and utopian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership...
x Walter Gropius Walter Gropius Foto 1920 MetLife Building Modern architecture
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of...
Gropius House Bauhaus
Fagus Factory Expressionist architecture
US Embassy, Athens
Josephine M. Hagerty House
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x Jørn Utzon SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House  
Jørn Oberg Utzon, (Danish pronunciation: [jɶɐ̯n ˈud̥sʌn]), AC (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon...
Elineberg Housing, Helsingborg
Middelboe house, Holte
Espansiva building system
Paustian Furniture Store
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x Daniel Burnham Daniel Burnham Flatiron Building Beaux-Arts architecture
Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the...
Rookery Building
David Whitney Building
Dime Building
Union Station
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x Thomas Telford ThomasTelford Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth  
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. Telford was born on 9 August 1757 at Glendinning, a hill farm 3 miles west of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural...
Church of St Michael, Madeley
Bridge over the River Conon
Ellesmere Port Span Warehouses
Buildwas Iron Bridge
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x Aldo Rossi Bonnefantenmuseum Gallaratese Housing, Milan Postmodern architecture
Aldo Rossi (May 3, 1931 – September 4, 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. Rossi was born in...
Teatro La Fenice
x Ustad Isa      
Isa Muhammad Effendi or Ustad Isa (Persian: استاد عيسى‎ translation Master Isa (Jesus in Arabic)) was a Turkish architect from Istanbul he and his colleague Ismail Effendi entered the service of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the Ottoman Sultan...
x Oscar Niemeyer Expression error: Unexpected < operatorpx Palácio da Alvorada Futurist architecture
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture. In the 1940s, '50s and '60s "he established himself as one of Modernism's greatest luminaries," while...
Palácio do Planalto Modern architecture
Palácio do Jaburu
Gustavo Capanema Palace
National Congress building
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x Robert Hooke Portrait of Hooke or Jan Baptist van Helmont Monument to the Great Fire of London  
Robert Hooke FRS (28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath. His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury
Bethlem Royal Hospital
x Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg around 1935    
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (help·info) (12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in...
x Louis Sullivan LouisSullivan Wainwright Building Modern architecture
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism" He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential...
Auditorium Building, Chicago Organic architecture
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building Art Nouveau
Bayard-Condict Building
National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna
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x Christopher Wren Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller 1711 Royal Observatory, Greenwich English Baroque
Sir Christopher Wren FRS (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666,...
St Paul's Cathedral
Wren Library, Cambridge
Morden College
Sheldonian Theatre
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x Henri Labrouste Labroustehenri    
Pierre François Henri Labrouste (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁi labrust]) (11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture. After a six year stay in Rome, Labrouste opened an...
x Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen North Christian Church Futurism
Eero Saarinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen]) (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple,...
Kresge Auditorium Modern architecture
Kleinhans Music Hall Mid-century modern
Vivian Beaumont Theatre Futurist architecture
Ingalls Rink
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x John Burgee Comerica Tower PPG Place Postmodern architecture
John Burgee is an American architect noted for his contributions to Postmodern architecture. He was a partner of Philip Johnson from 1967 to 1991, creating together the partnership firm Johnson/Burgee Architects. Their landmark collaborations...
Puerta de Europa
Comerica Tower
AEGON Center
Crystal Cathedral
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x Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Gehry Residence Reconstructivist
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works...
Chiat/Day Office Building Deconstructivism
Team Disney Anaheim Postmodernism
Gehry Tower Modern architecture
Dancing House
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x Cass Gilbert Cass Gilbert Woolworth Building Beaux-Arts architecture
Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was a prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums (Saint Louis Art Museum) and libraries ...
United States Supreme Court building
Minnesota State Capitol
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
90 West Street, New York City
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x Michael Graves Portland Public Service Building 1500 Ocean Drive Postmodern architecture
Michael Graves (born July 9, 1934) is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States. Graves was born in...
Portland Public Service Building
Riverbend Music Center
Humana Building
O'Reilly Theater
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x Walter Burley Griffin Walter Burley Griffin and his wife  Marion Mahony Griffin, in Sydney in 1930 Capitol Theatre, Melbourne  
Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 – February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city. He has also been credited with the development of the L...
Café Australia
Frederick B. Carter, Jr., House
Orth House
Stinson Memorial Library
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x Wallace Harrison The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Exxon Building  
Wallace Kirkman Harrison (September 28, 1895 – December 2, 1981), was an American architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center. He is best...
McGraw-Hill Building
Hopkins Center for the Arts
National City Tower
Time-Life Building
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x Raymond Hood Tribune Tower-Chicago Tribune Tower Beaux-Arts architecture
Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, educated at Brown University, MIT, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
GE Building Art Deco
American Radiator Building
330 West 42nd Street
Daily News Building
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x Philip Johnson 1933 Portrait of Philip Johnson by Carl Van Vechten New York State Theater Modern architecture
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later (1978), as a trustee, he was...
Williams Tower Postmodern architecture
IDS Center
Kreeger Museum
Fort Worth Water Gardens
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x Kenzo Tange Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment Building no1 Tocho 08 7 December 2003 Tokyo Dome Japanese architecture
Kenzo Tange (丹下 健三, Tange Kenzō, 4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese...
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Shinjuku Park Tower
Pickering Operations Complex
Yoyogi National Gymnasium
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x Adolf Loos Adolf Loos Steiner House Modern architecture
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austro-Hungarian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession,...
Rufer House
Khuner Villa
Villa Müller
x Edward Durell Stone 2 Columbus Circle Radio City Music Hall  
Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 - August 6, 1978) was a twentieth century American architect and an early proponent of modern architecture in the United States. Stone was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a small college town in the northwest...
Aon Center
General Motors Building
World Trade Center New Orleans
First Canadian Place
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