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x Albert Speer Albert Speer Volkshalle  
Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, pronounced [ˈʃpɛɐ]; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf...
Tempelhof International Airport
Reich Chancellery
x Anthemius of Tralles   Hagia Sophia  
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – before 558) (Greek Ἀνθέμιος από τις Τράλλεις) 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 Hagia...
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, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware....
Helsinki University of Technology Mid-century modern
Villa Mairea Modernism
Paimio Sanatorium
Mount Angel Abbey
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x Antoni Gaudí Antoni Gaudi 1878 Park Güell Art Nouveau
Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) – in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – was a Spanish Catalan architect who belonged to the Modernist style (Art Nouveau) movement...
Sagrada Familia Organic architecture
Casa Batlló
Church of Colònia Güell
Casa Calvet
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x Andreas Schlüter Kikin    
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...
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 architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",...
Alloy House
Dymaxion house
R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home
x Bartolomeo Ammanati Fountain of Neptune Fountain of Neptune  
Bartolomeo Ammanati (June 18, 1511 - April 13, 1592) was a Florentine 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
x Christopher Alexander   Martinez House  
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...
Julian Street Inn
Eishin Campus
Sala House
x Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Notre Dame de Paris Gothic Revival architecture
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...
Carcassonne Cathedral
Pierresfonds Cathedral
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 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. Wright promoted...
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 a Swiss Italian architect 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 (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: [efɛl], English: /ˈaɪfəl/), was a French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower...
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    
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  
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 — 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 addition he...
Palazzo Barberini
Palazzo Montecitorio
St. Peter's Basilica
x Gerrit Rietveld Rietveld Schröder House    
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (25 June 1888–27 June, 1965) 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...
x Iktinos   Parthenon Classical architecture
Iktinos (in Latin 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...
Bassae
Temple of Hephaestus
x Isidore of Miletus   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...
Little Hagia Sophia
x I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei Pitney Bowes Worldwide Headquarters High-Tech Architecture
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘, Bèi Yùmíng) (born April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known, along with Oscar Niemeyer, as one of the last masters of high modernist architecture...
Baltimore World Trade Center
The Gateway, Singapore
Paul Mellon Arts Center
Dallas City Hall
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x Kallikrates   Parthenon Classical architecture
Kallikrates (also spelled Callicrates) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BCE. He and Iktinos were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13) . An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the...
Sanctuary of Athena Nike
x Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion International style
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by his colleagues, students, writers, and others. Ludwig...
Westmount Square Modern architecture
Farnsworth House Bauhaus
IBM Plaza
Villa Tugendhat
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x Le Corbusier 20061005-1FK-948-B1934.jpg Ville Contemporaine International style
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called...
Tsentrosoyuz building Modern architecture
Sanskar Kendra Modernism
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, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's...
Tempio Malatestiano
S Andrea,Mantua
S Sebastiano
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
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x Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo self Vebjørn Sand Da Vinci Project 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...
x Maya Lin Maya Lin 1 Vietnam Veterans Memorial  
Maya Ying Lin (simplified Chinese: 林璎; traditional Chinese: 林瓔; pinyin: Lín Yīng; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist and architect who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Her best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans...
Civil Rights Memorial
x Michael Ventris      
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...
x Minoru Yamasaki Minoru Yamasaki World Trade Center High-Tech Architecture
Minoru Yamasaki (山崎實, Yamasaki Minoru, December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986) was an American architect of Japanese descent, best known for his design of the twin towers of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2. Yamasaki was one of the most...
One Woodward Avenue Modernism
Torre Picasso
BOK Tower
Rainier Tower
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x Mario Botta Harting Minden San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  
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. He designed...
x Michelangelo Michelangelo St. Peter's Basilica  
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in...
Palazzo Farnese
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
x Sir Norman Foster Norman Foster dresden 061110 Creek Vean House, Feock, Cornwall Sustainable architecture
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. In 2009...
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts High-Tech Architecture
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
Torre de Collserola
Faculty of Law, Cambridge
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x Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas Seattle Public Library  
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (English pronunciation: /ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born 17 November 1944(1944-11-17)) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design...
IIT Campus Center
Maison a Bordeaux
Torre Bicentenario
CCTV Headquarters
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x Renzo Piano St. Pio Church Kansai International Airport Sustainable architecture
Renzo Piano (born 14 September, 1937) is a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize. One admirer said the "serenity of his best buildings can almost make you...
Centre Georges Pompidou High-Tech Architecture
New York Times Building
Aurora Place
Zentrum Paul Klee
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x Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner, probably the best known esotericist from Austria and Germany Second Goetheanum Organic architecture
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25 or 27 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the...
Goetheanum Expressionist architecture
x Thomas Jefferson Jefferson portrait by Charles Willson Peale Monticello  
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
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 lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests entirely on his surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment (animal skin) containing about 250 drawings...
x Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Marcus  Vitruvius Pollio    
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; Vitruvii; (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum during military service or praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in...
x William Morris William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement    
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and...
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 and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
Gropius House Bauhaus
Wayland High School Expressionist architecture
Peter Thacher Junior High School
Fagus Factory
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x Jørn Utzon SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House  
Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When the Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, he became only the second...
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 and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron...
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 (9 August 1757 - 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. Telford was born in Glendinning, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland....
Church of St Michael, Madeley
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...
x Ustad Isa   Taj Mahal  
Ustad Isa (Persian: استاد عيسى translation Master Isa (Jesus in Arabic)) is a Persian architect, often described as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal. The lack of complete and reliable information as to whom the credit for the design belongs, led...
x Oscar Niemeyer Expression error: Unexpected < operatorpx United Nations Headquarters Futurist architecture
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. He was a pioneer in exploring the formal possibilities of...
Palácio da Alvorada Modernism
Palácio do Planalto
Palácio do Jaburu
Gustavo Capanema Palace
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x Robert Hooke Portrait of Hooke or Jan Baptist van Helmont    
Robert Hooke, FRS (18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His life divides roughly into three...
x Alfred Rosenberg Alfred Rosenberg around 1935    
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg Ph.D (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...
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 modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the...
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  
Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was one of the best known and highest acclaimed English architects in history, responsible for rebuilding 55 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his...
St Paul's Cathedral
Wren Library, Cambridge
Morden College
Sheldonian Theatre
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x Henri Labrouste Labroustehenri    
Pierre François Henri Labrouste (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 architectural training workshop, which quickly became...
x Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen North Christian Church Futurism
Eero Saarinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈeːro ˈsaːrinen]) (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and product 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
Ezra Stiles College Futurist architecture
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
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x John Burgee Comerica Tower PPG Place Postmodern architecture
John Burgee is an American architect important in Postmodern architecture. 1956 graduate of University of Notre Dame, USA, School of Architecture. Burgee's honors also include the Reynolds Prize in Architecture. Burgee served on Notre Dame's Board...
Puerta de Europa
Comerica Tower
AEGON Center
Crystal Cathedral
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x Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Gehry Residence Deconstructivism
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
Loyola Law School Postmodernism
Chiat/Day Office Building Modern architecture
Team Disney Anaheim
Gehry Tower
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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
Saint Louis Art Museum
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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...
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Portland Public Service Building
Riverbend Music Center
Humana Building
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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 a US 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-shaped...
Café Australia
Newman College
Frederick B. Carter, Jr., House
Orth House
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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 twentieth-century architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller...
McGraw-Hill Building
United Nations Headquarters
Hopkins Center for the Arts
National City Tower
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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 Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
GE Building Art Deco
Rockefeller Center
American Radiator Building
330 West 42nd Street
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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. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. In 1930, he founded the Department...
Williams Tower Postmodern architecture
IDS Center
Kreeger Museum
Boston Public Library
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x Kenzo Tange Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment Building no1 Tocho 08 7 December 2003 Tokyo Dome  
Kenzo Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō, September 4, 1913 – March 22, 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...
Hwa Chong Institution Boarding School
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Shinjuku Park Tower
Pickering Operations Complex
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x Adolf Loos Adolf Loos Steiner House Modern architecture
Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was one of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession...
Rufer House Modernism
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. Stone was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a small college town in the northwest corner of the state. His family, early settlers of the area, owned a...
Aon Center
General Motors Building
World Trade Center New Orleans
First Canadian Place
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