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Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture.
It was first awarded in 1848 to Charles Robert Cockerell and...
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Percy Thomas
Sir Percy Edward Thomas OBE (September 13, 1883 – August 191969), was a Welsh architect and twice RIBA president (1935-37 & 1943-46).
He was born in South Shields, the son of a sea captain from Narberth with whom the family often travelled. They...
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Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.
Saarinen was...
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Vincent Harris
Emanuel Vincent Harris OBE (June 26, 1876 – August 1, 1971) was an English architect who was most notably responsible for the design of several important public buildings.
He was born in Devonport, Devon and educated at Kingsbridge Grammar School....
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George Grey Wornum
George Grey Wornum (17 April 1888 -11 June 1957) was a British architect.
Grey Wornum was born in London. He studied architecture under the guidance of his uncle, Ralph Selden Wornum. He married the American designer Miriam Alice Gerstle in 1923. In...
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Le Corbusier
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...
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Arthur George Stephenson
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John Murry Easton
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Walter Gropius
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....
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Alvar Aalto
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....
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Robert Schofield Morris
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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...
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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian and philosopher of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also...
Sven Markelius
Sven Gottfrid Markelius (1889–1972) was one of the most important modernist Swedish architects. Markelius played an important role in the post-war urban planning of Stockholm, for example in the creation of the model suburb of Vällingby (1950s)....
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William Graham Holford
William Graham Holford, Baron Holford (22 March 1907 – 17 October 1975) was a British architect and town planner.
He was born in South Africa and educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town. He studied architecture at Liverpool University, where he won...
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Maxwell Fry
Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, usually known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987) was an English modernist architect.
Fry was born in Liscard, near Wallasey in Cheshire. His father Ambrose Fry, a chemical manufacturer, later...
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Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The...
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61. He is renowned...
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Gillespie, Kidd & Coia
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia were a Scottish architectural firm famous for their application of modernism in churches and universities, as well as at St Peter's Seminary in Cardross. Though founded in 1927, it is for their work in the post-war period that...
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Jack Coia
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Buckminster Fuller
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",...
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Robert Matthew
Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906 – 1975) was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism.
Robert Matthew was the son of John Matthew (also an architect, and the partner of Sir Robert Lorimer). He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and...
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Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (February 20, 1901 or 1902 – March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect of Estonian Jewish origin, based in Philadelphia, United States. After working in various capacities for several companies...
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Hubert de Cronin Hastings
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Ove Arup
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time....
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Leslie Martin
Sir John Leslie Martin KBE (Manchester, 17 August 1908 – 28 July 1999) was an English Architect. A leading advocate of the International Style Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. Martin's work was especially influenced by Alvar...
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Philip Powell
Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (15 March 1921 – 5 May 2003 in London), usually known as Philip Powell, was a ground-breaking English post-war architect.
He was educated at Epsom College and then the Architectural Association.
He was the father of ...
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Hidalgo Moya
John Hidalgo Moya (May 5, 1920 – 1994), sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. He formed the architectural practice Powell & Moya Architect Practice with Philip Powell. Among other projects...
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Michael Scott
Michael Scott (24 June 1905 – 24 January 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin, the Abbey Theatre, and Tullamore Hospital.
He was born in Drogheda in 1905. His family originated in the Province of...
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John Summerson
Sir John Newenham Summerson CH CBE (1904-1992) was one of the leading English architectural historians of the 20th century.
He was born at Coatham Munderville, near Darlington, at Hall Garth, originally the home of his grandfather, who worked for...
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Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Lasdun CH (8 September 1914–11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century. Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the River Thames, which is a Grade II listed building...
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Charles and Ray Eames
Charles (1907–1978) and Ray (1912–1988) Eames (pronounced /ˈiːmz/) were American designers, married in 1941, who worked and made major contributions in many fields of design including industrial design, furniture design, art, graphic design, film...
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James Stirling
Sir James Frazer Stirling FRIBA (22 April 1926 in Glasgow – 25 June 1992 in London) was a British Architect considered to be among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20 century. He is perhaps best known as one of...
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Philip Dowson
Sir Philip Henry Manning Dowson CBE, PRA (born 1924) is a leading British architect. From 1993 to 1999 he served as President of the Royal Academy.
Dowson was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1938 to 1942 and then went up to University...
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Berthold Lubetkin
Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 — 23 October 1990) was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Lubetkin studied in Moscow and Leningrad where he witnessed the...
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Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.
Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957,...
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Charles Correa
Charles Correa (September 1, 1930, Hyderabad, India) is an Indian architect, planner and activist . He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after which he established a private practice in...
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Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki (磯崎新, Isozaki Arata; born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect from Ōita, Ōita. He won the RIBA gold medal in 1986. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954. Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm...
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Kenzo Tange
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...
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Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine, CBRE, RFS, ARIBA (February 24, 1914 – March 16, 2005) was an architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.
Erskine was born in 1914, in Monliaws, Northumberland, but spent his childhood in Mill Hill in the...
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Aldo van Eyck
Aldo van Eyck or van Eijk (16 March 1918, Driebergen, Utrecht, Netherlands - 14 January 1999) was an Architect from the Netherlands.
He was a son of Poet, Critic, Essayist and Philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck or van Eijk and wife Nelly Estelle...
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Colin Stansfield Smith
Professor Sir Colin Stansfield Smith CBE, (born October 1, 1932) is a British architect and academic. He played over 100 games of first-class cricket in the 1950s.
Stansfield Smith was born in Didsbury, Manchester, and studied architecture and drama...
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Peter Rice
Peter Rice (1935–1992) was an Irish structural engineer.
Born in Dundalk in County Louth, he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast where he...
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Giancarlo De Carlo
Giancarlo De Carlo (December 12, 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an Italian architect.
He was born in Genoa, Liguria in 1919. He trained as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and...
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Michael Hopkins
Sir Michael Hopkins, CBE, RA, AADipl (born May 5, 1935, in Poole, Dorset) is an English architect. He studied at the Architectural Association and after working for Frederick Gibberd and a spell in partnership with Norman Foster he set up his own...
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Patricia Hopkins
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Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to...
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Colin Rowe
Colin Rowe (born Rotherham, England 1920 - died November 5, 1999, Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.), a British-born but Americanised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teacher, is acknowledged as a major intellectual influence on...
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Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler, AC OBE (25 June 1923 Vienna — 9 March 2006 Sydney) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the...
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Rafael Moneo
José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his...
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Renzo Piano
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...
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Oscar Niemeyer
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...
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Frank Gehry
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...
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Sir Norman Foster
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI, (born 1 June 1935) is a English architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. In 2009...
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Rem Koolhaas
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...
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Herzog and de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH (HdeM) is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 8...
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Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was...
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Jørn Utzon
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...
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Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto (31 May 1925) is a German architect and structural engineer.
Otto studied architecture in Berlin before being drafted into the Luftwaffe as a fighter pilot in the last years of World War II. It is said that he was interned in a French...
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Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito (伊東豊雄, Itō Toyo'o; 1941-) is a Japanese architect known for creating extremely conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual "worlds". He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses...
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Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of...
