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Architecture
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Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and other physical...
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Jon Jerde
Jon Jerde (b.1940) is an American architect based in Venice, California, Founder & Chairman of The Jerde Partnership, a design architecture and urban planning firm that pioneered the concept of placemaking and "experience architecture;" and has...
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Eero Saarinen
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,...
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- 1934
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Robert A. M. Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful...
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- 1965
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César Pelli
César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic...
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César Pelli
César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic...
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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 British 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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Sir Norman Foster
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...
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Charles Green Shaw
Charles Green Shaw (1 May 1892—2 April 1974) was an American painter and writer.
A significant figure in American abstract art, Shaw enjoyed a varied career as a writer and illustrator, poet, modernist painter, and collector. Born to a wealthy...
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John Burgee
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...
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- 1956
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Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1942 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the...
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- 1968
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Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1942 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the...
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- 1978
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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the city of Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15 years old.
An excellent student, he studied...
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John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an architect most known for his designs of the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of...
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- 1894
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Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, Kt, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed...
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- 1885
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop...
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Carl Graffunder
Carl Graffunder (born March 23, 1919) is a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in...
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- 1942
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Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Throughout her long career, she designed...
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Carl Graffunder
Carl Graffunder (born March 23, 1919) is a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in...
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- 1948
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Carl Graffunder
Carl Graffunder (born March 23, 1919) is a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in...
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- 1943
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Christopher J. Williams
Mr. Williams has been a member of Wal-mart's Board of Directors since 2004. He is Chairman and CEO of The Williams Capital Group, L.P., an investment bank and since 2003 has served as the Chairman and CEO of Williams Capital Management, LLC,...
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Eugene Kohn
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Sheldon Fox
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D. Michael Downs
D. Michael Downs has been named assistant vice president, real estate & construction for Sysco Corporation last July 2, 2006. He began his SYSCO career in 1988 as a project manager at the company's corporate offices in Houston. He was promoted...
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- 1977
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد), CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect.
Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving...
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Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop...
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John E. Pershing
John E. Pershing has been appointed as executive vice president of Human Capital effective December 11, 2007.
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Daniel Asher Alexander
Daniel Asher Alexander (1768–1846) was a British architect and engineer.
He was the principal architect of Dartmoor Prison and Maidstone Prison, two of the oldest gaols still in use in the United Kingdom.
Alexander was also the surveyor to the...
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- 1782
James Hoban
James Hoban (c. 1758 – December 8, 1831) was an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C..
James Hoban was born in Desart, near Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Hoban was raised at Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny where...
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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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- 1937
Celina Antunes
Celina Antunes has been Chief Executive Officer of Cushman & Wakefield's South American operation (Semco) since July 2002, overseeing more than 1,500 employees and a 60 million-square-foot Asset Services portfolio.
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- 1984
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- 1981
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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- 1925
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- 1923
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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- 1928
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- 1925
Marky Cielo
Mark Angelo Cadaweng Cielo (May 12, 1988 – December 7, 2008), better known as Marky Cielo, was a Filipino actor, dancer, and the first known Igorot-actor in Philippine showbiz. He is notable for his win in the reality talent competition StarStruck ...
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Shaun Donovan
Shaun L.S. Donovan (born January 24, 1966) is the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, serving in the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Prior to this he headed the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and...
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Richard Herbert Sheppard
Sir Richard Herbert Sheppard CBE (2 July 1910 – 18 December 1982) was an English architect.
Sheppard was born in Bristol. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and trained as an architect at the Royal West of England Academy. During his time...
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- 1936
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Colin Cardham
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John Andrews
John Andrews (29 October 1933 in Sydney) is an architect whose best known works are Scarborough College (1963) and CN tower (1973, in joint venture with WZMH Architects ), both in Toronto, and Gund Hall at Harvard University.
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- 1956
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John Andrews
John Andrews (29 October 1933 in Sydney) is an architect whose best known works are Scarborough College (1963) and CN tower (1973, in joint venture with WZMH Architects ), both in Toronto, and Gund Hall at Harvard University.
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- 1958
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Jeremiah Tower
Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who, along with Wolfgang Puck and Alice Waters, is generally credited with developing the culinary style known as California cuisine.
Tower was born in Stamford, Connecticut, son of a managing...
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Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (Persian: میرحسین موسوی خامنه, Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian reformist politician, painter and architect who served as the seventy-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He...
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Edward Brodhead Green
E. B. Green (1855 – 1950) was a major American architect from New York State. He was born in Utica, NY. He attended Cornell University, and moved to Buffalo, NY in 1881, where he was active through about 1930. His work left a lasting impression on...
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- 1878
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Bernard H Zehrfuss
Major French Architect. Worked with Marcel Brauer and Luigi Nervi on the Paris Unesco HQ 1952-1958.Most of his work on the university of tunis was carried out between 1960 and 1964.
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- 1939
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- 1929
René Clément
René Clément March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his...
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Stuart Dryburgh
Stuart Dryburgh (born 30 March 1952 in London) is an English-born New Zealand cinematographer, now working in Hollywood.
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- 1977
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Boris Leven
Boris Leven (August 13, 1908 - October 11, 1986) was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.
Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became...
