The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, which point to an article in the English Wikipedia.

Early architects

* Aa ( Middle Kingdom), Egyptian *

Amenhotep, son of Hapu Amenhotep, son of Hapu (transcribed ''jmn-ḥtp zꜣ ḥꜣp.w''; early-mid 14th century BC) was an ancient Egyptian architect, a priest, a scribe, and a public official, who held a number of offices under Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty. ...

(14th c. BC), Egyptian *

Anthemius of Tralles Anthemius of Tralles ( grc-gre, Ἀνθέμιος ὁ Τραλλιανός, Medieval Greek: , ''Anthémios o Trallianós''; – 533 558) was a Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the ca ...

(c. 474 – 533–558), Greek *

Apollodorus of Damascus Apollodorus of Damascus ( grc, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was a Nabataean architect and engineer from Damascus, Roman Syria, who flourished during the 2nd century AD. As an engineer he authored several technical treatises, ...

(2nd c. AD), Damascus *

Aristobulus of Cassandreia Aristobulus of Cassandreia (c. 375 BC – 301 BC), Greek historian, son of Aristobulus, probably a Phocian settled in Cassandreia, accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns. He served throughout as an architect and military engineer as w ...

(c. 375 – 301 BC), Greek * Callicrates (mid-5th c. BC), Greek * Hermodorus of Salamis (fl. 146–102 BC), Cypriot * Hippodamus of Miletus (498–408 BC), Greek *

Ictinus Ictinus (; el, Ἰκτῖνος, ''Iktinos'') was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – in col ...

(fl. mid-5th c. BC), Greek *

Imhotep Imhotep (; egy, ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "(the one who) comes in peace"; fl. late 27th century BCE) was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopol ...

(fl. late 27th c. BC), Egyptian *

Ineni Ineni (sometimes transliterated as Anena) was an ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major construction projects under the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II and the joint reigns ...

(18th Dynasty of Egypt), Egyptian * Isidore of Miletus (6th c. AD), Byzantine Greek * Marcus Agrippa (63–12 BC), Roman * Mnesicles (mid-5th c. BC), Athenian * Rabirius (1st–2nd cc. AD), Roman * Senemut ( 18th Dynasty of Egypt), Egyptian *

Vitruvius Vitruvius (; c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled '' De architectura''. He originated the idea that all buildings should have three attribut ...

(c. 80–70 BC – post–15 BC), Roman *

Yu Hao Yu Hao (, 970) was a Chinese architect, structural engineer, and writer during the Song Dynasty. Legacy Yu Hao was given the title of Master-Carpenter (Du Liao Jiang) for his architectural skill.Needham, Volume 4, Part 3, 81. He wrote the ''Mu J ...

(喻皓, fl 970), Chinese * Narasimhavarman II (695-729 CE), South India * Perumthachan(9th c.AD), South India

12th-century architects

Abbot Suger Suger (; la, Sugerius; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot, statesman, and historian. He once lived at the court of Pope Calixtus II in Maguelonne, France. He later became abbot of St-Denis, and became a close confidant to King Lou ...

(c. 1081–1151), French * William the Englishman (1174 – c. 1214), English * William of Sens (died 1180), French

13th-century architects

Arnolfo di Cambio Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 – 1300/1310) was an Italian architect and sculptor. He designed Florence Cathedral and the sixth city wall around Florence (1284–1333), while his most important surviving work as a sculptor is the tomb of Cardin ...

(c. 1240–1300/1310), Italian *

Villard de Honnecourt Villard de Honnecourt (''Wilars dehonecort'', ''Vilars de Honecourt'') was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs ...

(fl. 13th c.), French * Robert de Luzarches (fl. late 12th – early 13th c.), French * Jean d'Orbais (c. 1175–1231), French * Radovan (fl. 13th c.), Croatian

14th-century architects

Filippo Calendario Filippo Calendario (died 16 April 1355 in Venice, Italy) was an architect, a designer of the 14th century Doge's Palace, Venice. He was executed for treason. Design of Doge's Palace By the end of the 13th century the existing Doge's Palace in V ...

(died 1355), Venetian * Jacopo Celega (died pre–1386), Italian *

Taddeo Gaddi Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian painter and architect. He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi. He was a member of Giotto's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. ...

(c. 1290–1366), Florentine * Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267–1337), Florentine * Anđeo Lovrov Zadranin (fl. mid–14th c.), Croatian * Juraj Lovrov Zadranin (fl. 14th c.), Croatian * Heinrich Parler (c. 1310–1371), German * Johann Parler (c. 1359–1405/6), Bohemian *

Peter Parler Peter Parler (german: Peter von Gemünd, cs, Petr Parléř, la, Petrus de Gemunden in Suevia; 1333 – 13 July 1399) was a German-Bohemian architect and sculptor from the Parler family of master builders. Along with his father, Heinrich Parler, ...

(c. 1333–1399), Bohemian * Wenzel Parler (c. 1360–1404), Bohemian

15th-century architects

Leon Battista Alberti Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. H ...

(1404–1472), Italian *

Andrea Alessi Andrea Alessi ( sq, Andrea Nikollë Aleksi, hr, Andrija Aleši, 1425–1505) was an Albanian architect and sculptor born in Durazzo ( Albania Veneta), considered one of the most distinguished artists of Dalmatia. Alessi was born in Durazzo (mo ...

(1425–1505), Dalmatian * Marko Andrijić (c. 1470 – post-1507), Dalmatian *

Donato Bramante Donato Bramante ( , , ; 1444 – 11 April 1514), born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect and painter. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance styl ...

(1444–1514), Italian *

Filippo Brunelleschi Filippo Brunelleschi ( , , also known as Pippo; 1377 – 15 April 1446), considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, was an Italian architect, designer, and sculptor, and is now recognized to be the first modern engineer, p ...

(1377–1446), Italian * Mauro Codussi (1440–1504), Italian/Venetian *

Aristotele Fioravanti Ridolfo "Aristotele" Fioravanti (c. 1415 or 1420 in Bologna – c. 1486 in Tsardom of Russia) was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer, active in Muscovy from 1475, where he designed the Dormition Cathedral, Moscow during 1475–1479. H ...

(c. 1415 or 1420 – c. 1486), Italian/Russian * Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino (1418–1506), Italian/Dalmatian * Juan Guas (c. 1430/1433 – c. 1496), Spanish * Luciano Laurana (c. 1420–1479), Venetian *

Annibale Maggi Annibale Maggi was a Venetian architect of the Renaissance period. He designed and help build the loggia del Consiglio in Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and '' comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river ...

detto ''Da Bassano'' (fl. 1490s), Venetian * Paskoje Miličević (c. 1440–1516), Croatian * Michelozzo Michelozzi (1396–1472), Italian *

Bernardo Rossellino Bernardo di Matteo del Borra Gamberelli (1409 Settignano – 1464 Florence), better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino. As a member of the secon ...

(1409–1464), Italian * Giorgio da Sebenico (c. 1410–1473), Venetian * Jacob van Thienen (fl. early 15th c.), Flemish *

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on ...

(1452–1519), Italian

16th-century architects

* Antonio Abbondi (fl. early 16th c.), Italian * Galeazzo Alessi (1512–1572), Italian *

Bartolomeo Ammanati Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 151113 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the design of the Library of St. Mark's, the ''Bibl ...

(1511–1592), Italian * Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian * Girolamo Cassar (c. 1520 – c. 1592), Maltese *

Vittorio Cassar Vittorio Cassar ( mt, Vitor Cassar, 1550 – 1609), born Gio Vittorio Cassar, was a Maltese architect and military engineer. The son of the renowned architect Girolamo Cassar, he was admitted as a knight within the Order of St. John in 1587. He ...

(c. 1550 – c. 1609), Maltese * Guglielmo dei Grigi (1485–1550), Italian *

Nikolaus Gromann Nikolaus Gromann (c. 1500 – 29 November 1566) was an architect of the German Renaissance who served at the court of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony. He also worked for John Frederick's descendants residing in the cities of Weimar, Gotha ...

(1500–1566), German *

Juan de Herrera Juan de Herrera (1530 – 15 January 1597) was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician. One of the most outstanding Spanish architects in the 16th century, Herrera represents the peak of the Renaissance in Spain. His sober style rea ...

(1530–1597), Spanish *

Adam Kraft Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460?January 1509) was a German stone sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period, based in Nuremberg and with a documented career there from 1490. It is not known where Kraft was born and raised; his han ...

(1460–1509), German * Francesco Laparelli (1521–1570), Italian *

Pirro Ligorio Pirro Ligorio ( October 30, 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. He worked as the Vatican's Papal Architect under Popes Paul IV and Pius IV, designed the fountains at Villa d� ...

(1512–1583), Italian * Philibert de l'Orme (1514–1570), French *

Giovanni Magenta Giovanni Magenta (; 1565–1635) was an Italian architect. He designed the cathedral of ''San Pietro'' at Bologna (1605). It was later modified by Alfonso Torreggiani (1765). He designed the church of ''San Salvatore ''in Bologna (1605–1623) and ...

(1565–1635), Italian *

Hans Hendrik van Paesschen Hans Hendrik van Paesschen (c. 1510-1582) was a Flemish architect, based in Antwerp, who designed high-style classical buildings in many countries of northern Europe. Life and Times While Italy was blessed with the architecture of Andrea Pa ...

(c. 1510–1582), Flemish *

Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of ...

(1508–1580), Italian * Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (c. 1453–1534), Italian *

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(1484–1546), Italian *

Michele Sammicheli Michele Sanmicheli (also spelled ''Sanmmicheli'', ''Sanmichele'' or ''Sammichele'') (1484–1559), was a Venetian architect and urban planner of Mannerist-style, among the greatest of his era. A tireless worker, he was in charge of designing buil ...

(1484–1559), Venetian *

Raffaello Santi Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual ...

(Raphael) (1483–1520), Italian *

Vincenzo Scamozzi Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure t ...

(1548–1616), Italian *

Sebastiano Serlio Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential trea ...

(1475–1554), Italian * Koca Mimar Sinan Agha (1489–1588), Ottoman Armenian * Friedrich Sustris (1540–1599), Italian/Dutch *

Lambert Sustris Lambert Sustris (c. 1515-1520 – c. 1584) was a Dutch painter active mainly in Venice. The works Sustris completed in Italy exhibit either a Mannerist style or qualities that may be deemed proto-baroque. He is also referred to as ''Albert ...

(1518–1584), Dutch *

Pellegrino Tibaldi Pellegrino Tibaldi (Valsolda, 1527– Milan, 1596), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter. Biography Tibaldi was born in Puria di Valsolda, then part of the duchy ...

(1527–1596), Italian *

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

(1511–1574), Italian * Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507–1573), Italian *

Postnik Yakovlev Postnik Yakovlev (Постник Яковлев) is most famous as one of the architects and builders of Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (built between 1555 and 1560, the other architect is Barma). Originally from Pskov, it is t ...

(fl. mid-16th c.), Russian

17th-century architects

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his ...

(1598–1680), Italian *

Francesco Borromini Francesco Borromini (, ), byname of Francesco Castelli (; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino

(1599–1667), Italian *

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri Ustad Ahmad Lahori ( fa, ) was an architect from the South Asia-based Mughal Empire, who is said to have been the chief architect of the Taj Mahal in Agra, built between 1632 and 1648 during the rule of the Emperor Shah Jahan. Its architectur ...

(fl. 17th c.), Indian * Jacob van Campen (1596–1657), Dutch *

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

(1596 or 1597–1669), Italian * Jan Zygmunt Deybel (c. 1685–1752), German * Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726), German * Leonhard Dientzenhofer (1660–1707), German *

Tumas Dingli Tommaso Dingli ( mt, Tumas Dingli, 22 December 1591 – 28 January 1666) was a Maltese architect and sculptor. One of the last Renaissance architects on the island, he designed several parish churches, most notably those of Attard and Birkirka ...

(1591–1666), Maltese * Léopold Durand (1666–1746), French * Pietro Paolo Floriani (1585–1638), Italian *

Lorenzo Gafà Lorenzo Gafà (1639–1703) was a Maltese Baroque architect and sculptor. He designed many churches in the Maltese Islands, including St. Paul's Cathedral in Mdina and the Cathedral of the Assumption in Victoria, Gozo. He was the younger broth ...

(1639–1703), Maltese *

Guarino Guarini Camillo Guarino Guarini (17 January 1624 – 6 March 1683) was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer.. Biography Guarini w ...

(1624–1683), Italian *

Jules Hardouin-Mansart Jules Hardouin-Mansart (; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Gran ...

(1646–1708), French *

Elias Holl Elias Holl (28 February 1573 in Augsburg – 6 January 1646 in Augsburg) was the most important architect of late German Renaissance architecture. Life Elias Holl was born in Augsburg, Werbhausgasse 2. He was descended from a master-builder- ...

(1573–1646), German *

Inigo Jones Inigo Jones (; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England and Wales in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. As the most notable archit ...

(1573–1652), English * Louis Le Vau (1612–1670), French *

Baldassarre Longhena Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682) was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period. Biography Born in Venice, Longhena studied under the architect ...

(1598–1682), Italian *

Carlo Maderno Carlo Maderno (Maderna) (1556 – 30 January 1629) was an Italian architect, born in today's Ticino, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture. His façades of Santa Susanna, St. Peter's Basilica and Sant'Andrea della Vall ...

(1556–1629), Italian *

François Mansart François Mansart (; 23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The '' Encyclopædia Britannica'' cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century Fr ...

(1598–1666), French *

Johann Arnold Nering Johann Arnold Nering (or Nehring; 13 January 1659 – 21 October 1695) was a German Baroque architect in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia. A native of Wesel, Cleves, Nering was educated largely in Holland. From 1677 to 1679 he also travelled ...

(c.1659?–1695), German * Francesco Antonio Picchiatti (1619–1694), Italian *

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) was a German master builder and architect who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685. His most famous work is the Zwinger Palace. Life Pöppelmann was born in Herford in Westphalia o ...

(1662–1736), German *

Carlo Rainaldi Carlo Rainaldi (4 May 1611 – 8 February 1691) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Rome, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at f ...

(1611–1691), Italian *

Andreas Schlüter Andreas Schlüter (1659 – c. June 1714) was a German baroque sculptor and architect, active in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Tsardom. Biography Andreas Schlüter was b ...

(c.1659–1714), German *

Nicodemus Tessin the Younger Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (May 23, 1654 – April 10, 1728) was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the midd ...

(1654–1728), Swedish * John Webb (1611–1672), English * Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham (1632–1705), English *

Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 church ...

(1632–1723), English

18th-century architects

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...

(1728–1792), Scottish * William Adam (1689–1748), Scottish *

Cosmas Damian Asam Cosmas Damian Asam (29 September 1686 – 10 May 1739) was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he lived in Rome from 1711 to 1713 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta. ...

(1686–1739), German *

Egid Quirin Asam Egid Quirin Asam (1 September 1692 – 29 April 1750) was a German plasterer, sculptor, architect, and painter. He was active during the Late Baroque and Rococo periods. Born in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Asam worked mainly together with his brot ...

(1692–1750), German * Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739–1808), Italian *

Étienne-Louis Boullée Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 17284 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. Life Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Bof ...

(1728–1799) *

William Buckland William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist. Buckland wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named ' ...

(1734–1774), English/American *

Colen Campbell Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. As well as his architectura ...

(1676–1729), Scottish *

John Carr of York John Carr (1723–1807) was a prolific English architect, best known for Buxton Crescent in Derbyshire and Harewood House in West Yorkshire. Much of his work was in the Palladian style. In his day he was considered to be the leading architect in ...

(1723–1807), English *

Richard Cassels Richard Cassels (1690 – 1751), also known as Richard Castle, was an architect who ranks with Edward Lovett Pearce as one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. Cassels was born in 1690 in Kassel, Germany. Alth ...

(1690–1751), German * William Chambers (1723–1796), Swedish/Scottish * François de Cuvilliés (1695–1768), Netherlandish/German * Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722), German *

Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer ( cs, Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer) (1 September 1689, Prague – 18 December 1751) was a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and the Bohemian-German ...

(1689–1751), German * Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731–1812), Netherlandish * John Douglas (c. 1709–1788), Scottish * Nicolai Eigtved (1701–1754), Danish *

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (20 July 1656 – 5 April 1723) was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His inf ...

(1656–1723), Austrian * Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766), German * Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), French *

Ange-Jacques Gabriel Ange-Jacques Gabriel (23 October 1698 – 4 January 1782) was the principal architect of King Louis XV of France. His major works included the Place de la Concorde, the École Militaire, and the Petit Trianon and opera theater at the Palace of V ...

(1698–1782), French *

Alessandro Galilei Alessandro Maria Gaetano Galilei (25 August 1691 – 21 December 1737) was an Italian mathematician, architect and theorist, a member of the same patrician family of Galileo. Biography Born in Florence, he received architectural and engineering t ...

(1691–1737), Italian * John Gwynn (1713–1786), English *

Abraham Hargrave Abraham Addison Hargrave (1755–1808), sometimes referred to as Abraham Hargrave the Elder was an architect and building contractor who was active mainly in County Cork, Ireland, in the late 18th and early 19th century. Born near Leeds, England ...

(1755–1808), English/Irish * Peter Harrison (1716–1775), American *

Nicholas Hawksmoor Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principa ...

(1661–1736), English *

Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (14 November 1668 – 16 November 1745) was an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches and whose work had a profound influence on the architecture of the Habsburg E ...

(1668–1745), Austrian * James Hoban (1755–1831), Irish/American * John Hutchison, Scottish *

Thomas Ivory Thomas Ivory (1709–1779) was an English builder and architect, active in Norwich. Life Ivory was born in 1709. His early years and education remain obscure. His earliest recorded large commission was in his capacity as a builder and timber m ...

(1709–1779), English *

Nicolas-Henri Jardin Nicolas-Henri Jardin (22 March 1720 – 31 August 1799) was a French architect. Born in St. Germain des Noyers, Seine-et-Marne, Jardin worked seventeen years in Denmark–Norway as an architect to the Danish royal court. He introduced neoclassic ...

(1720–1799), French (in Denmark) *

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 18 ...

(1743–1826), American *

Richard Jupp Richard Jupp (1728 – 17 April 1799) was an 18th-century English architect, particularly associated with buildings in and around London. He served for many years (c. 1755 – 1799) as surveyor to the British East India Company. Works His wo ...

(1728–1799), English *

Filippo Juvarra Filippo is an Italian language, Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English language, English name Philip (name), Philip, from the Greek language, Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "amante dei cavalli".''Behind the Name''"Given Name ...

(1678–1736), Italian *

William Kent William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, bu ...

(1685–1748), English *

Benjamin Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was an Anglo-American neoclassical architect who emigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the new United States, dra ...

(1764–1820), English/American * Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806), French * Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746), Italian * Joseph Christian Lillie (1760–1827), Danish *

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

(João Frederico Ludovice) (1673–1752), German *

Giorgio Massari Giorgio Massari (13 October 1687 – 20 December 1766) was an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715, the church of Santo Spritito in Udine, the church of Santa Maria della Pace 1720–46 ...

(1687–1766), Italian * Josef Munggenast (1680–1741), Austrian * Robert Mylne (1733–1811), Scottish * Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin (1700–1763), Russian *

Balthasar Neumann Johann Balthasar Neumann (; 27 January 1687 (?) – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Ita ...

(c. 1687–1733), German *

Mateus Vicente de Oliveira Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706–1786) was a Portuguese architect. He studied under the architects João Frederico Ludovice and Jean Baptiste Robillon during the construction of the royal palace at Mafra - Portugal's attempt to rival the Span ...

(1706–86), Portuguese * Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765), Italian *

Edward Lovett Pearce Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1699 – 7 December 1733) was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of Palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is be ...

(1699–1733), Irish *

Charles Percier Charles Percier (; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For ...

(1764–1838), French * Giuseppe Piermarini (1734–1808), Italian *

Paolo Posi Paolo Posi (1708 - 1776) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque period. Among the cities in which he was active were Rome, Narni, and Viterbo. Among the other works, he designed mausoleums for Cardinal Inico Caracciolo in Aversa, Cardinal G ...

(1708–1776), Italian * Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726), Austrian * Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), Italian/Russian *

Joseph-Jacques Ramée Joseph-Jacques Ramée (April 26, 1764 in Charlemont, France — May 18, 1842 at the Chateau de Beaurains, Noyon) was a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist idiom. He was a student of the ...

(1764–1842), Italian *

Bartolomeo Rastrelli Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (russian: Франче́ско Бартоломе́о (Варфоломе́й Варфоломе́евич) Растре́лли; 1700 in Paris, Kingdom of France – 29 April 1771 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Em ...

(1700–1771), Italian/Russian * Charles Ribart (fl. 1776–1783), French * Antonio Rinaldi (c. 1710–1794), Italian *

Nicola Salvi Nicola Salvi or Niccolò Salvi (6 August 1697 (Rome) – 8 February 1751 (Rome)) was an Italian architect; among his few projects completed is the famous Trevi fountain in Rome, Italy. Biography Admitted to the Roman Academy of Arcadia in 1717 ...

(1697–1751), Italian *

Thomas Sandby Thomas Sandby (1721 – 25 June 1798) was an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed private secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, who later appointed him Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park, wh ...

(1721–1798), English * Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel (1677–1723), Austrian/Czech *

Michael Searles Michael Searles (1750–1813) was an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notable achievement is perhaps The Paragon in Blackheath. Searles was the son of a Greenwich surveyor, also named Michael Sea ...

(1750–1813), English *

Jacques-Germain Soufflot Jacques-Germain Soufflot (, 22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church d ...

(1713–1780), French * Manuel Caetano de Sousa (1738–1802), Portuguese *

William Thornton William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He also served as the first Architect of the Capitol and first Superintendent of the ...

(1759–1828), English/American * Lauritz de Thurah (1706–1759), Danish * Mary Townley (1753–1839), English * Domenico Trezzini (1670–1734), Swiss/Italian *

John Vanbrugh Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restora ...

(1664–1726), English *

Luigi Vanvitelli Luigi Vanvitelli (; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as (), was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an eas ...

(1700–1773), Italian *

Bernardo Vittone image:Grignasco-ChiesaParrocchiale.jpg, Parish Church of Grignasco Bernardo Antonio Vittone (19 August 1704 – 19 October 1770) was an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active in the Piedmont ...

(1704–1770), Italian *

John Wood, the Elder John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some o ...

(1704–1754), English * John Wood, the Younger (1728–1782), English *

James Wyatt James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 1806. Early life W ...

(1746–1813), English *

Dominikus Zimmermann Dominikus Zimmermann (30 June 1685, Gaispoint – 16 November 1766, Wies) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Life Dominikus Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint near Wessobrunn in 1685 and became a Baumeister (Architect) and a stu ...

(1685–1766), German

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Dankmar Adler Dankmar Adler (July 3, 1844 – April 16, 1900) was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addr ...

(1844–1900), American *

Frank Shaver Allen Frank Shaver Allen (1860–1930), usually known as F. S. Allen was a significant Joliet, Illinois-based American architect noted for his Richardsonian Romanesque school designs. Early life and career Frank Shaver Allen was born in 1860 in Gales ...

(1860–1934), American * Henry Austin (1804–1891), American *

Alphonse Balat Alphonse Hubert François Balat (15 May 1818 – 16 September 1895) was a Belgian architect. Life Balat was born in Gochenée. He studied at the Academie of Namur and obtained his degree in architecture from the Academy of Antwerp in 1838 ...

(1819–1895), Belgian * William Swinden Barber (1832–1908), English *Sir

Charles Barry Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was a British architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also respon ...

(1795–1860), English * Charles Barry, Jr. (1823–1900), English *

Edward Middleton Barry Edward Middleton Barry RA (7 June 1830 – 27 January 1880) was an English architect of the 19th century. Biography Edward Barry was the third son of Sir Charles Barry, born in his father's house, 27 Foley Place, London. In infancy he was ...

(1830–1880), English *

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ( , ; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing ''Liberty Enlightening the World'', commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. Early life and education Barthold ...

(1834–1904), French * Carlo Bassi (1807–1856), Italian * Asher Benjamin (1773–1845), American * Hendrik Beyaert (1823–1894), Belgian *

Charles Bickel Charles A. Bickel (1852 – 1 February 1921) was a prominent architect practicing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bickel was born to a well-to-do family of Columbus, Ohio who sent him to Europe for six years to prepare him for a career in archi ...

(1852–1921), American * Joseph Blick (1867–1947), American *

Edward Blore Edward Blore (13 September 1787 – 4 September 1879) was a 19th-century English landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. Early career He was born in Derby, the son of the antiquarian writer Thomas Blore. Blore's back ...

(1787–1879), English *

Camillo Boito Camillo Boito (; 30 October 1836 – 28 June 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist. Biography Boito was born in Rome, the son of an Italian painter of miniatures. His mother was of Poli ...

(1836–1914), Italian *

Ignatius Bonomi Ignatius Bonomi (1787–1870) was an English architect and surveyor, with Italian origins by his father, strongly associated with Durham in north-east England. Life He was the son of an architect and draughtsman, Joseph Bonomi (1739–1 ...

(1787–1870), English * Ferdinando Bonsignore (1760–1843), Italian * R. Newton Brezee (1851–1929), American * Gridley James Fox Bryant (1816–1899), American *

David Bryce David Bryce FRSE FRIBA RSA (3 April 1803 – 7 May 1876) was a Scottish architect. Life Bryce was born at 5 South College Street in Edinburgh, the son of David Bryce (1763–1816) a grocer with a successful side interest in buildi ...

(1803–1876), Scottish * Aleksandar Bugarski (1835–1891), Serbian *

Charles Bulfinch Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice.Baltzell, Edward Digby. ''Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia''. Tran ...

(1763–1844), American *

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

(1827–1881), English * William Burn (1789–1870), Scottish *

Decimus Burton Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian neoclassical and R ...

(1800–1881), English * J. Cleaveland Cady (1837–1919), American *

Carrère and Hastings Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère ( ; November 9, 1858 – March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929), was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. Located in New York City ...

(1885–1929), American *

Cesar Castellani Cesar Castellani (died 2 August 1905) was an architect. He was born in Malta. He was attracted by the prosperity of British Guiana and emigrated there in 1860 with a group of Italian priests. Designs Castellani designed a number of prominent buil ...

(died 1905), Maltese * Basil Champneys (1842–1935), English * Edward Clark (1822–1902), American * Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), American * S. N. Cooke (1882–1964), English *

Lewis Cubitt Lewis Cubitt (29 September 1799 – 9 June 1883) was an English civil engineer and architect. Life He was a younger brother of Thomas Cubitt, the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and he designed many ...

(1799–1883), English *

Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was a British master builder, notable for his employment in developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury. His great-great-g ...

(1788–1855), English *

Pierre Cuypers Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (16 May 1827 – 3 March 1921) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885), both in Amsterdam. ...

(1827–1921), Dutch * Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892), American * George Devey (1820–1886), English * John Dobson (1787–1865), English * Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885), English *

Henry Engelbert Henry Engelbert (1826–1901) was a German-American architect. He was best known for buildings in the French Second Empire style, which emphasized elaborate mansard roofs with dormers. New York's Grand Hotel on Broadway is the most noteworthy ex ...

(1826–1901), American *

Kolyu Ficheto Nikola Fichev ( bg, Никола Фичев) (1800 Direnova, Ottoman Empire - 1881 Veliko Tarnovo, Principality of Bulgaria), commonly known as Kolyo Ficheto ( bg, Колю Фичето) or with his Turkish honorific Usta (Master) Kolyo Ficheto ...

(1800–1881), Bulgarian *

George A. Frederick George Aloysius Frederick (December 16, 1842 – August 17, 1924) was a German-American architect with a practice in Baltimore, Maryland, where his most prominent commission was the Baltimore City Hall (1867–1875), awarded him when he was o ...

(1842–1924), American * Watson Fothergill (1841–1928), English * James Fowler (1828–1892), English *

Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his ''Worthies of England'', published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and ...

(1823–1898), Canadian *

Frank Furness Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 - June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often unordinarily scaled b ...

(1839–1912), American * Charles Garnier (1825–1898), French * Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847), German * Edward William Godwin (1833–1886), English * George Enoch Grayson (1833–1912), English *

Samuel Hannaford Samuel Hannaford (10 April 1835 – 7 January 1911) was an American architect based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of the best known landmarks in the city, such as Music Hall and City Hall, were of his design. The bulk of Hannaford's work was do ...

(1835–1911), American *

Theophil Hansen Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen (; original Danish name: Theophilus Hansen ; 13 July 1813 – 17 February 1891) was a Danish architect who later became an Austrian citizen. He became particularly well known for his buildings and structures in ...

(1813–1891), Danish/Austrian *

Philip Hardwick Philip Hardwick (15 June 1792 in London – 28 December 1870) was an English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere. Hardwick is probably best known for London's demolished Euston Arch ...

(1792–1870), English *

Philip Charles Hardwick Philip Charles Hardwick ( London 1822–1892) was an English architect. Life Philip Charles Hardwick was born in Westminster in London, the son of the architect Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) and grandson of architect Thomas Hardwick (junior) ...

(1822–1892), English * William Alexander Harvey (1874–1951), English *

Thomas Hastings Thomas Hastings may refer to: *Thomas Hastings (colonist) (1605–1685), English immigrant to New England *Thomas Hastings (composer) (1784–1872), American composer, primarily of hymn tunes * Thomas Hastings (cricketer) (1865–1938), Australian c ...

(1860–1929), American *

Victor Horta Victor Pierre Horta (; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. His Hôtel Tassel in Brussels, built in 1892–93, is often ...

(1861–1947), Belgian *

William Hosking William Hosking (26 November 1800 – 2 August 1861) was an English writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and development of London in Victorian times. He became the first Professor of Architecture at K ...

FSA (1800–1861), English * Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863), German *

Samuel Huckel William Samuel Huckel Jr. (1858–1917) was an American architect in Philadelphia, where he was a pupil of William E. Winner and Benjamin D. Price and later worked first as partner at Hazlehurst & Huckel, then Watson & Huckel where he and Wa ...

(1858–1917), American * Richard Hunt (1827–1895), American * Benno Janssen (1874–1964), American *

Giuseppe Jappelli Giuseppe Jappelli (14 May 1783 – 8 May 1852) was an Italian neoclassic architect and engineer who was born and died in Venice, which for much of his life was part of the Austrian Empire. He was the youngest of nine children born to Domeni ...

(1783–1852), Italian * William LeBaron Jenney (1832–1907), American *Sir Horace Jones (1819–1887), English * Emilijan Josimović (1823–1897), Serbian *

Abdallah Khan Abdallah Khan ( – ) was an Iranian court painter and architect of the Qajar era who was active between 1810 and 1850. His greatest work is a grand mural in the Negarestan Palace, Tehran, and he is also known to have painted murals at the S ...

(fl. 1810–1850), Persian *

Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, L ...

(1784–1864), German * John A. B. Koch (1845–1928), Australian *

Henri Labrouste 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 established an architectural training worksh ...

(1801–1875), French * Barthelemy Lafon (1769–1820), American * Richard Lane (1795–1880), English *

Benjamin Henry Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was an Anglo-American neoclassical architect who emigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the new United States, dra ...

(1764–1820), American * Robert Lawson (1833–1902), New Zealander * Charles F. Lembke (1865–1925), American * Joseph Christian Lillie (1760–1827), Danish *

Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (August 18, 1854, Portland, Maine – February 16, 1934, Portland) was an American architect and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Biography Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. was the son of Alex ...

(1854–1934), American *

Sara Losh Sara or Sarah Losh (1785 – 29 March 1853) was an English architect and designer. Her biographer describes her as an antiquarian, architect and visionary. She was a landowner of Wreay, Cumberland (now Cumbria), where her prime work, St Mary's C ...

(1785–1853), English *

Richard Lucae Richard Lucae (12 April 1829 – 26 November 1877 ; full name: ''Johannes Theodor Volcmar Richard Lucae'') was a German architect and from 1873 director of the Berliner Bauakademie. Early life Richard Lucae came from an old Berlin pharmacy fa ...

(1829–1879), German * Charles-François Mandar (1757–1844), French *

Charles Follen McKim Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the part ...

(1847–1909), American *

Samuel McIntire Samuel McIntire (January 16, 1757 – February 6, 1811) was an American architect and craftsman, best known for his work in the Chestnut Street District, a classic example of Federal style architecture. Life and career Born in Salem, Massachu ...

(1757–1811), American * Enrico Marconi (1792–1863), Italian * Leandro Marconi (1834–1919), Polish * Oskar Marmorek (1863–1909), Austro-Hungarian * Frederick Marrable (1819–1872), English * Robert Mills (1781–1855), American *

Josef Mocker Josef Mocker (22 November 1835 in Cítoliby – 15 November 1899 in Prague) was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist Gothic Revival style. Overview Mocker was responsible for restoring many Bohemian castles and ancient bui ...

(1835–1899), Bohemian * Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), French *

Julia Morgan Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career.Erica Reder"Julia Morgan was a local in ''The New Fillmore'', 1 Febr ...

(1872–1957), American *

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He w ...

(1834–1906), English *

Alfred B. Mullett Alfred Bult Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was a British-American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildi ...

(1834–1890), American

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* John Nash (1752–1835), English * Atanasije Nikolić (1803–1882), Serbian * Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908), Austrian *

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the USA. Olmsted was famous for co- ...

(1822–1903), American * Frederick J. Osterling (1865–1934), American *

Edward Graham Paley Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley (3 September 1823 – 23 January 1895), was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century. After leaving school in 1838, he went to La ...

(1823–1895), English *

Alexander Parris Alexander Parris (November 24, 1780 – June 16, 1852) was a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect whose work transitioned from Federal style architecture to the later Greek Revival. Parr ...

(1780–1852), American *

Joseph Paxton Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

(1803–1865), English * John Wornham Penfold (1828–1909), English * Sir James Pennethorne, English * Francis Penrose (1817–1903), English *

Friedrich Ludwig Persius Friedrich Ludwig Persius (15 February 1803 in Potsdam – 12 July 1845 in Potsdam) was a Prussian architect and a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel with, among others, the building of the Charlottenhof Castle an ...

(1803–1845), German *

Francis Petre Francis William Petre (27 August 1847 – 10 December 1918), sometimes known as Frank Petre, was a New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin. He was an able exponent of the Gothic revival style, one of its best practitioners in New Zea ...

(1847–1918), New Zealand * Albert Pretzinger (b. 1863, death date unknown), American * Will Price (1855–1916), American *

Augustus Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...

(1812–1852), English * E. W. Pugin (1834–1875), English * Peter Paul Pugin (1851–1904), English *

(1764–1842), French * Charles Reed (1814–1859), English * Charles Reeves (1815–1866), English *

James Renwick, Jr. James Renwick Jr. (born November 11, 1818, Bloomingdale, in Upper Manhattan, New York City – June 23, 1895, New York City) was an American architect in the 19th century. ''The Encyclopedia of American Architecture'' calls him "one of the mos ...

(1818–1895), American *

Henry Hobson Richardson Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one ...

(1838–1886), American *

Thomas Rickman Thomas Rickman (8 June 17764 January 1841) was an English architect and architectural antiquary who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival. He is particularly remembered for his ''Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture'' ...

(1776–1841), English * Eduard Riedel (1813–1885), German * Antonio Rivas Mercado (1853–1927), Mexican * Robert S. Roeschlaub (1843–1923), American * Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869), American *

John Root John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 – January 15, 1891) was an American architect who was based in Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style. Two of his buildings have been designated a National ...

(1850–1891), American * Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), Italian/Russian *

Archimedes Russell Archimedes Russell (June 13,1840 – April 3, 1915) was an American architect most active in the Syracuse, New York area. Born in Andover, Massachusetts and trained under local architect Horatio Nelson White, Russell served as a professor of ...

(1840–1915), American * Octave van Rysselberghe (1855–1929), Belgian *

John Holloway Sanders John Holloway Sanders FRIBA (1825 – 16 October 1884) was an architect based in England and chief architect of the Midland Railway until 1884. His date of appointment as Chief Architect to the Midland Railway is not known, but he is recorded as ...

(1825–1884), English * Frederick C. Sauer (1860–1942), German/American *

George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

(1811–1878), English *

George Gilbert Scott Jr. George Gilbert Scott Jr. (8 October 1839 – 6 May 1897) was an English architect working in late Gothic and Queen Anne revival styles. Known in later life as 'Middle Scott', he was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Scott (George Gilbert Scott), ...

(1839–1897), English *

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassic ...

(1781–1841), German *

Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising i ...

(1803–1879), German *

Edmund Sharpe Edmund Sharpe (31 October 1809 – 8 May 1877) was an English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, he was educated first by his parents and then at schools locally and i ...

(1809–1877), English * Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1848–1913), American * Jacob Snyder (1823–1890), American *

John Soane Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the R ...

(1848–1913), American *

August Soller Johann August Karl Soller (14 March 1805 – 6 November 1853) was a Prussian, and later, German architect.

(1805–1853), German * Vasily P. Stasov (1769–1848), Russian *

J. J. Stevenson John James Stevenson FRSE FSA FRIBA (24 August 1831 – 5 May 1908), usually referred to as J. J. Stevenson, was a British architect of the late-Victorian era. Born in Glasgow, he worked in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. He is particularly assoc ...

(1831–1908), Scottish * Heinrich Strack (1805–1880), German *

George Edmund Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...

(1824–1881), English * William Strickland (1788–1854), American * Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865), German *

Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloy ...

(1856–1924), American * Henry Tanner (1849–1935), English * Thomas Alexander Tefft (1826–1859), American *

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE, (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scot ...

(1757–1834), Scottish * Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873), English * Constantine Andreyevich Ton (1794–1881), Russian * Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), French * Ithiel Town (1784–1844), American *

Silvanus Trevail Silvanus Trevail (11 November 1851 – 7 November 1903) was a British architect, and the most prominent Cornish architect of the 19th century. Early life Trevail was born at Carne Farm, Trethurgy in the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall on 11 No ...

(1851–1903), English *

William Tubby William Bunker Tubby (21 August 1858 – 1944) was an American architect who was particularly notable for his work in New York City. Tubby was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1875.Christopher G ...

(1858–1944), American * Richard Upjohn (1802–1878), English/American * Calvert Vaux (1824–1925), English/American *

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. H ...

(1814–1879), French * Otto Wagner (1841–1918), Austrian * Thomas U. Walter (1804–1887), American *

Alfred Waterhouse Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known ...

(1830–1905), English * George Webster (1797–1864), English *

John Dodsley Webster John Dodsley Webster (1840–1913) was an English architect who designed more than 15 churches in Sheffield in various Gothic styles, usually working to a tight budget. His work also included hospitals and commercial buildings, small country house ...

(1840–1913), English *

Stanford White Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He designed many houses for the rich, in addition ...

(1853–1906), American * William Wilkins (1778–1839), English * Frederick Clarke Withers (1828–1901), English/American *

William Halsey Wood William Halsey Wood (April 24, 1855 – March 13, 1897) was an American architect. Early life Wood was the youngest of four sons born to Daniel Halsey Wood and Hannah Lippincott Wood. Shortly after his birth in 1855, the family relocated from ...

(1855–1897), American * Thomas Worthington (1826–1909), English *

Thomas Henry Wyatt Thomas Henry Wyatt (9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880) was an Anglo-Irish architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870–73 and being awarded its Royal Gold Medal for ...

(1807–1880), Irish/English * Edward Alexander Wyon (1842–1872), English * Ammi B. Young (1798–1874), American * Nikola Živković (1792–1870), Serbian

20th-century architects

A–C

Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, s ...

(1898–1976), Finland *

Max Abramovitz Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908 – September 12, 2004) was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz. Life Abramovitz was the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduat ...

(1908–2004), US * David Adler (1882–1949), US * Gerard Pieter Adolfs (1898–1968), Dutch East Indies * Charles N. Agree (1897–1982), Detroit, Michigan, US *

Walter W. Ahlschlager Walter William Ahlschlager (July 19, 1887 – March 28, 1965) was a 20th-century American architect. After being located in Chicago for many years, he established his office in Dallas, Texas in 1940. He died in Dallas. Noted designs *Davis Thea ...

(1887–1965), US * Franco Albini (1905–1977), Italy *

Christopher Alexander Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature ...

(born 1936), Austria *

Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize. Early life Ando was born a few m ...

(born 1941), Japan * Paul Andreu (1938–2018), France *

Edmund Anscombe Edmund Anscombe (8 February 1874 – 9 October 1948) was one of the most important figures to shape the architectural and urban fabric of New Zealand. He was important, not only because of the prolific nature of his practice and the quality of ...

(1874–1948), New Zealand * Milan Antonović (1850–1929) * Siah Armajani (1939–2020), Iran * Raul de Armas (born 1941), Cuba * João Batista Vilanova Artigas (1915–1985), Brazil *

Hisham N. Ashkouri Hisham N. Ashkouri ( ar, هشام أشكري, born August 15, 1948) is a Boston and New York-based architect. Ealry Life Ashkouri was born August 15, 1948 in Baghdad, Iraq. He graduated first in class in 1970 with a Bachelor of Architecture Deg ...

(born 1948), US * Charles Herbert Aslin (1893–1959), UK *

Gunnar Asplund Erik Gunnar Asplund (22 September 1885 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style w ...

(1885–1940), Sweden *

Ian Athfield Sir Ian Charles Athfield (15 July 1940 – 16 January 2015) was a New Zealand architect. He was born in Christchurch and graduated from the University of Auckland in 1963 with a Diploma of Architecture. That same year he joined Structon Group A ...

(1940–2015), New Zealand * Fritz Auer (born 1933), Germany * Gae Aulenti (1927–2012), Italy * Carlo Aymonino (1926–2010), Italy * Rafiq Azam, Bangladesh * Laurie Baker (1917–2007), UK/India * Sixto Durán Ballén (1921–2016), US * Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Italy/Brazil *

Edward Larrabee Barnes Edward Larrabee Barnes (April 22, 1915 – September 22, 2004) was an American architect. His work was characterized by the "fusing fModernism with vernacular architecture and understated design." Barnes was best known for his adherence to st ...

(1915–2004), US * Howard R. Barr (1910–2002), US * Luis Barragán (1902–1988), Mexico *

Fred Bassetti Fred Bassetti (January 31, 1917 in Seattle – December 5, 2013 in Oregon) was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. His architectural legacy includes some of the Seattle area's more recognizable buildings and spaces. The American Institute ...

(1917–2013), US * Garry Baverstock (born 1949), Australia *

Geoffrey Bawa Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation. Early life Geoffrey Bawa was born in Colombo on 23 July 1919, the young ...

(1919–2003), Sri Lanka * Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), UK *

Welton Becket Welton David Becket (August 8, 1902 – January 16, 1969) was an American modern architect who designed many buildings in Los Angeles, California. Biography Becket was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Washin ...

(1902–1969), US *

Claud Beelman Claud W. Beelman (1883 – January 30, 1963), sometimes known as ''Claude Beelman'', was an American architect who designed many examples of Beaux-Arts, Art Deco, and Streamline Moderne style buildings. Many of his buildings are listed on the N ...

(1883–1963), US * Adolf Behne (1885–1948), Germany *

Peter Behrens Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading Germany, German architect, graphic and Industrial design, industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG turbine factory, AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a ...

(1868–1940), Germany *

Pietro Belluschi Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 – February 14, 1994) was an Italian-American architect. A leading figure in modern architecture, he was responsible for the design of over 1,000 buildings.Belluschi, Pietro. (2007). In ''Encyclopædia Britanni ...

(1899–1994), US *

Hendrik Petrus Berlage Hendrik Petrus Berlage (21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a Dutch architect. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School. Life and work Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Berlage and An ...

(1856–1934), Netherlands * Mordechai Benshemesh (1911–1993), Australia * Antonio Bilbao La Vieja (1892–1980), Argentina *

Titus de Bobula Titus de Bobula (1878–1961) was a Hungarian-American architect. He was born in Hungary to János Bobula, Sr. (1844–1903), a Budapest architect and politician, and he studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, along with ...

(1878–1961) *

Ricardo Bofill Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...

(born 1939), Spain *

Oriol Bohigas Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola (20 December 1925 – 30 November 2021) was a Spanish architect and urban planner, known for his work in the modernization of Barcelona. Early life Bohigas was born in Barcelona, Spain, on 20 December 1925 in a Cat ...

(born 1925), Spain *

Gottfried Böhm Gottfried Böhm (; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne ...

(1920–2021), Germany * J. Max Bond, Jr. (1935–2009), US *

Dariush Borbor Dariush Borbor ( fa, داریوش بوربور, born April 28, 1934), is an Iranian-French architect, urban planner, designer, sculptor, painter, researcher, and writer. In 1963, Borbor established his own firm under the name of Borbor Consulting ...

(born 1934), Iran *

Mario Botta Mario Botta (born 1 April 1943) is a Swiss architect. Career Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino, at age 16. He graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia (1969). While the arrangements of sp ...

(born 1943), Switzerland *

Claude Fayette Bragdon Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866 – 1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City. The designer of Rochester’s New York Central Railroad termina ...

(1866–1946), US * C.A. "Peter" Bransgrove (1914–1966), Tanganyika/Tanzania *

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most i ...

(1902–1981), Hungary * Halldóra Briem (1913–1993), Iceland * Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990), US *

John Burgee __NOTOC__ John Burgee (born August 28, 1933) 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 Architect ...

(born 1933), US *

Daniel Burnham Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the '' Beaux-Arts'' movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ...

(1846–1912), US *

Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculp ...

(born 1951), Spain *

Peter Calthorpe Peter Calthorpe (born 1949) is a San Francisco-based architect, urban designer and urban planner. He is a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable building practices ...

(born 1949), US *

Alberto Campo Baeza Alberto Campo Baeza (born 1946, in Valladolid) is a Spanish architect and Full-Time Design Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986 to 2017. He retired the same year. He has built a selected number of award ...

(born 1946), Spain *Sir

Hugh Casson Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect. He was also active as an interior designer, as an artist, and as a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of architecture for t ...

(1910–1999), UK * James Walter Chapman-Taylor (1958–1978), UK/New Zealand * Ethel Charles (1871–1962), UK *

Jorge Ferreira Chaves Jorge Ferreira Chaves (22 February 1920 – 22 August 1981) was a Portuguese architect. Some authors may refer to him as "Jorge Chaves" or simply "Chaves". He was one of the architects responsible, in the latter part of the 1940s, for the estab ...

(1920–1982), Portugal * Ann R. Chaintreuil (born 1947), United States * Serge Chermayeff (1900–1996), Chechnya/UK *

David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museu ...

(born 1953), UK *

Wells Coates Wells Wintemute Coates OBE (December 17, 1895 – June 17, 1958) was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an expatriate Canadian who is best known for his work in England, the most notable of which is the Modernist ...

(1895–1958), UK/Canada * Josep Antoni Coderch (1913–1984), Spain * Charles A. Cofield (born -), US * Coleman Coker (born 1951), US * Mary Colter (1869–1958), US * Peter Cook (born 1936), UK * Isadore (Issie) Coop (1926–2003), Canada *

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

(1887–1965), Switzerland/France * Ernest Cormier (1885–1980), Canada * Charles Correa (1930–2015), India *

Lúcio Costa Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa (27 February 1902 – 13 June 1998) was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília. Career Costa was born in Toulon, France, the son of Brazilian parents. His fat ...

(1902–1998), Brazil *

Ralph Adams Cram Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partne ...

(1863–1942), US * Charles Howard Crane (1885–1952), US * Paul Philippe Cret (1876–1945), France, US *

Louis Curtiss Louis Singleton Curtiss (July 1, 1865 – June 24, 1924) was a Canadian-born American architect. Notable as a pioneer of the curtain wall design, he was once described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City".Kansas City Public Library"The Fran ...

(1865–1924), US *

Kirtland Cutter Kirtland Kelsey Cutter (August 20, 1860 – September 26, 1939) was a 20th-century architect in the Pacific Northwest and California. He was born in East Rockport, Ohio, the great-grandson of Jared Potter Kirtland. He studied painting and ill ...

(1860–1939), US

D–G

* Justus Dahinden (1925–2020), Switzerland * Karl Damschen (born 1942), Germany * Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco (1857–1932), Italy *

Jules Gregory Jules Gregory (August 3, 1920 – March 13, 1985) was an award-winning American architect and innovative urban planner who worked in the mid-twentieth-century modern era from Princeton, New Jersey for most of his career. Early life Jules Gregor ...

(1920 – 1985), US * Giancarlo De Carlo (1919–2005), Italy *

Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps (June 2, 1882 – February 11, 1969) was an American architect. He was one of Nevada's most prolific architects, yet is notable for entering the architectural profession with no extensive formal training. He has also ...

(1882–1969), US * François Deslaugiers (1934–2009), France * Jack Diamond (born 1932), South Africa/Canada *

Filipe Oliveira Dias Filipe Oliveira Dias (October 16, 1963 – October 15, 2014) was a Portuguese architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connectio ...

(1963–2014), Portugal *

Theo van Doesburg Theo van Doesburg (, 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nell ...

(1883–1931), Netherlands * B. V. Doshi (born 1927), India * Alden B. Dow (1904–1983), US *

Jane Drew Dame Jane Drew , (24 March 1911 – 27 July 1996) was an English modernist architect and town planner. She qualified at the Architectural Association School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern ...

(1911–1996), UK *

Andrés Duany Andrés Duany (born September 7, 1949) is an American architect, an urban planner, and a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Early life and education Duany was born in New York City but grew up in Cuba until 1960. He attended The Ch ...

(born 1949), US *

Max Dudler Max Dudler (born 18 November 1949 in Altenrhein, Switzerland) is a Swiss architect with international fame. The main characteristic of Max Dudler's architecture is a combination of strict Swiss minimalism and classical rationalism that is found ...

(born 1949), Switzerland/Germany * Michael Middleton Dwyer (born 1954), US * Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974), Netherlands *

Arthur Dyson Arthur Dyson (born February 24, 1940) is an American architect. Early life and apprenticeships Arthur Dyson was born in Inglewood, California, on February 24, 1940, son of Harry and Thyra Dyson. This well-illustrated book is the principal a ...

(born 1940), US * H. Kempton Dyson (1880–1944), UK *

Charles Eames Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his spouse Ray Kaiser Eames, he was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the field of a ...

(1907–1978), US *

Ray Eames Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. In creative partnership with her husband Charles Eames and The Eames Office, she was ...

(1912–1988), US * John Eberson (1875–1964), Romania/USA *

Peter Eisenman Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his writing and speaking about architecture as well as his designs, which have been called high modernist or deconstructiv ...

(born 1932), US *

George Grant Elmslie George Grant Elmslie (February 20, 1869 – April 23, 1952) was a Scottish-born American Prairie School architect whose work is mostly found in the Midwestern United States. He worked with Louis Sullivan and later with William Gray Purcell as a ...

(1869–1952), US * Richard England (born 1937), Malta * Arthur Erickson (1924–2009), Canada *

Raymond Erith Raymond Charles Erith RA FRIBA (7 August 1904 – 30 November 1973) was a leading classical architect in England during the period dominated by the modern movement after the Second World War. His work demonstrates his continual interest in expan ...

(1904–1973), US *

Aldo van Eyck Aldo van Eyck (; 16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999) was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism. Family He was born in Driebergen, Utrecht, a son of poet, critic, ess ...

(1918–1999), Netherlands * Hassan Fathy (1900–1989), Egypt * Sverre Fehn (1924–2009), Norway *

Arthur Fehr Arthur Fehr, F.A.I.A. (November 19, 1904 - January 23, 1969) was an American architect who turned in mid-career from his traditional architectural education to the Modern or International style and was one of its first practitioners in Texas. Ea ...

(1904–1969), US * Hermann Finsterlin (1887–1973), Germany * Theodor Fischer (1862–1938), Germany * Harold H. Fisher (1901–2005), US * Kay Fisker (1893–1965), Denmark * O'Neil Ford (1905–1982), US *

Mohammad Foyez Ullah Mohammad Foyez Ullah ( bn, মোহাম্মদ ফয়েজ উল্লাহ) is a Bangladeshi architect. He is the founder and principal architect of Volumezero Limited, and was the co-founder of Vistaara Architects. He started his ca ...

(born 1967), Bangladesh *

Norman Foster Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Nor ...

(born 1935), UK * Yona Friedman (1923–2020), Hungary/France *

Maxwell Fry Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter. Originally trained in the neo-classical style of architecture, Fry grew to favour th ...

(1899–1987), UK *

Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing ...

(1895–1983), US * Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italy *

Antoni Gaudí Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, ''sui generis'' style. Most are located in Bar ...

(1852–1926), Spain * Giuli Gegelia (born 1942), Georgia *

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...

(born 1929), Canada/USA * Haralamb H. Georgescu (1908–1977), Romania/USA *

Heydar Ghiai Heydar-Gholi Khan Ghiaï- Chamlou ( fa, حیدرقلی خان غیایی شاملو) was an Iranian architect. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1952, and was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran. He designed the Se ...

(1922–1985), Iran * Cass Gilbert (1859–1934), US * Moisei Ginzburg (1892–1946), Belarus/USSR * Romaldo Giurgola (1920–2016), Italy/USA/Australia *

Hansjörg Göritz Hansjörg Göritz (English: Hansjoerg Goeritz; born 5 June 1959) is a German-American architect, professor, author and designer associated with pure and minimalist architecture that emphasizes place, space, light and material. For his early works ...

(born 1959), Germany * Bruce Goff (1904–1982), US *

Ernő Goldfinger Ernő Goldfinger (11 September 1902 – 15 November 1987) was a Hungarian-born architect and designer of furniture. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, and became a key member of the Modernist architectural movement. He is most prom ...

(1902–1987), Hungary/UK *

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon The name ''Teodoro'' is the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Theodore. People Given name * Teodoro Alcalde (1913–1995) * Teodoro Ardemans (died 1726) * Teodoro Borlongan (1955–2005) * Teodoro Buontempo (1946–2013) * Teodoro Cano Gar ...

(1926–2016), Mexico * Bertram Goodhue (1869–1924), US *

Ferdinand Gottlieb Ferdinand Gottlieb (October 5, 1919 in Berlin, Germany – October 27, 2007, in Dobbs Ferry, New York) was a New York-based architect. He headed his own firm, Ferdinand Gottlieb & Associates, based in Dobbs Ferry (1961–2007). He is perhaps ...

(1919–2007), Germany/USA * Noemí Goytia (born 1936), Argentina *

Giorgio Grassi Giorgio Grassi (born 1935) is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as ''La Tendenza'', associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Ital ...

(born 1935), Italy *

Michael Graves Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, as well as principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Gr ...

(1934–2015), US *

Charles Sumner Greene Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene (1868–1957) and Henry Mather Greene (January 23, 1870 – October 2, 1954), influential early 20th Century American architects. Active primarily in Cal ...

(1868–1957), US * Henry Mather Greene (1870–1954), US *

Vittorio Gregotti Vittorio Gregotti (10 August 1927 – 15 March 2020) was an Italian architect, born in Novara. He was seen as both a member of the Neo-Avant Garde and a key figure in 1970s Postmodernism. Biography Gregotti was born in Novara, in the Italian P ...

(1927–2020), Italy *

Walter Burley Griffin Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He is known for designing Canberra, Australia's capital city and the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton. He has been cr ...

(1876–1937), US *Sir

Nicholas Grimshaw Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA (born 9 October 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was ...

(born 1939), UK *

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...

(1883–1969), Germany * Victor Gruen (1903–1980), Austria *

Hector Guimard Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building ...

(1867–1942), France

H–K

* Charles Haertling (1928–1984), US * William John Hale (1862–1929), UK * Robert Bell Hamilton (1892–1948), Australia * Halfdan M. Hanson (1884–1952), US * Bashirul Haq (1942–2020), Bangladesh *

Hugo Häring Hugo Häring (11 May 1882 – 17 May 1958) was a German architect and architectural writer best known for his writings on "organic architecture", and as a figure in architectural debates about functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s, though he had a ...

(1882–1958), Germany * David M. Harper (born 1953), US * Wallace Harrison (1895–1981), US * Francis R. Heakes (1858–1930), Canada * John Hejduk (1929–2000), US *

Herman Hertzberger Herman Hertzberger (born 6 July 1932) is a Dutch architect, and a professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. In 2012 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Biography Herman Hertzberge ...

(born 1932), Netherlands * Heinz Hess (1922–1992), Germany *

Fernando Higueras Fernando de Higueras Díaz (November 26, 1930 – January 30, 2008) was a Spanish architect. He was one of the most famous architects in the world during the 1970s. He was born in Madrid. He graduated as an architect from the Superior Techni ...

(1930–2008), Spain * Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967), German *

Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer. Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...

(1910–2002), Germany *Harold

Frank Hoar Harold Frank Hoar, FRIBA (13 September 1909 – 3 October 1976) was a British architect, artist, academic and architectural historian. Hoar first came to public prominence when, at the age of 25, he won a competition to design the first ter ...

(1907–1976), UK * Florence Fulton Hobson (1881–1978), Ireland *

Charles Holden Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

(1875–1960), UK *

Hans Hollein Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer

(1934–2014), Austria *

Raymond Hood Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles. He is best known for his designs of the Tribune Tower, American Radiator Building, and Rockefeller Center. Th ...

(1881–1934), US *Sir Michael Hopkins (born 1935), UK, 1994 RIBA Gold Medal winner *

(1861–1947), Belgium * Edith Hughes (1888–1971), UK * A. R. Hye (1919–2008), Pakistan *

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

(1928–2000), Austria * Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr. (1923–1997), US * Muzharul Islam (1923–2012), Bangladesh *

Arata Isozaki Arata Isozaki (磯崎新, ''Isozaki Arata''; born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. Biography Isozaki was ...

(born 1931), Japan *

Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA () 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple we ...

(1902–1971), Denmark *

Hugh Newell Jacobsen Hugh Newell Jacobsen (March 11, 1929 – March 4, 2021) was an American architect. He was noted for designing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' home in Martha's Vineyard during the 1980s. He also restored part of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, as well ...

(born 1929), US * Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), Germany/US * Peter Janesch (born 1953), Hungary * Benno Janssen (1874–1964), US * Pierre Jeanneret (1896–1967), Switzerland * Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1853–1930), Denmark * Jon Jerde (1940–2015), US *

Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...

(1906–2005), US *

Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. Clarence Howard Johnston Sr. (August 26, 1859 – December 29, 1936) was an American architect who practiced in the US state of Minnesota during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Specializing in domestic, religious, and public architecture, he se ...

(1859–1936), US *

E. Fay Jones Euine Fay Jones (January 31, 1921 – August 30, 2004) was an American architect and designer. An apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright during his professional career, Jones is the only one of Wright's disciples to have received the AIA Gold Medal (19 ...

(1921–2004), US *

Josep Maria Jujol José María Jujol Gibert (16 September 1879 – 1 May 1949) was a Spanish architect. Jujol's wide field of activity ranged from furniture designs and painting, to architecture. He worked with Antoni Gaudí on many of his most famous works. ...

(1879–1949), Spain * Ryszard Jurkowski (born 1945), Poland * Albert Kahn (1869–1942), US * Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–1982), Bangladesh *

Louis Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. W ...

(1901/1902–1974), US * Maxwell M. Kalman (1906–2009), Canada * Mariam Kamara (born 1979), Niger * Louis Kamper (1861–1953), US * Jan Kaplický (1937–2009), Czech/UK *

Katayama Tōkuma was a Japanese architect who designed the original buildings for the Imperial Nara Museum as well as the Kyoto Imperial Museum and was significant in introducing Western, particularly French architecture into Japan. Coming from Chōshū, T ...

(1854–1917), Japan *

Oskar Kaufmann Oskar Kaufmann (2 February 1873 – 8 September 1956) was a Hungarian architect. He was an expert in construction and design and was active in Berlin beginning in 1900. Among his best-known works are the Krolloper, the Hebbel Theater and the , ...

(1873–1956), Hungary *

Kendrick Bangs Kellogg Kendrick Bangs Kellogg (born 1934) is an American architect. An innovator of organic architecture, Kellogg built a wide assortment of distinctive buildings. Homes include the Lotus House, Wingsweep, Kellogg Doolittle Residence, the High Desert ho ...

(born 1934), US * Raymond M. Kennedy (1891–1976), US * Hugh T. Keyes (1888–1963), US * Nader Khalili (1936–2008), US *

Edward Killingsworth Edward Killingsworth FAIA (1917–2004) was an American architect. He is best known as a participant in Arts & Architecture's Case Study program in the mid-1950s. He designed and built Case Study House #25, "The Frank House," in Naples, Californi ...

(1917–2004), US *

Charles Klauder Charles Zeller Klauder (February 9, 1872 – October 30, 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, the first educa ...

(1872–1938), US * George Klenzendorff (1883–?), US *

Michel de Klerk Michel de Klerk (24 November 1884, Amsterdam – 24 November 1923, Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture) Early in his ca ...

(1884–1923), Netherlands *

Ralph Knott Ralph Knott (3 May 1878 – 25 January 1929) was a British architect. He was responsible for building the massive 6-storey "Edwardian Baroque" style County Hall building for the London County Council. Knott was a native of Chelsea and was th ...

(1878–1929), UK *

Austin Eldon Knowlton Austin Eldon Knowlton (July 23, 1909 – June 25, 2003) was a trained architect who spent most of his career in the construction industry. His company designed, financed, and built more than 160 college and university buildings on every major ...

(1909–2003), US * Carl Koch (1912–1998), US * Hans Kollhoff (born 1946), Germany * Musa Konsulova (1921-2019), USSR, Ukraine *

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 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 Harvard University. He is often cited as a r ...

(born 1944), Netherlands *

Károly Kós Károly Kós (, born Károly Kosch; 16 December 1883 – 25 August 1977) was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania. Biography Born as Károly Kosch in Temesvár, Austria-Hung ...

(1883–1977), Hungary *

Johannes Krahn Johannes Krahn (17 May 1908 – 17 October 1974) was a German architect and an academic teacher. Career Born in Mainz, Johannes Krahn studied architecture from 1923 to 1927 at the Technische Lehranstalten Offenbach. He continued his studies 19 ...

(1908–1974), Germany * Piet Kramer (1881–1961), Netherlands *

Léon Krier Léon Krier CVO (born 7 April 1946) is a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist, and urban planner, a prominent critic of modernist architecture and advocate of New Classical architecture and New Urbanism. Krier combines an internat ...

(born 1946), Luxembourg *

Kisho Kurokawa (April 8, 1934 – October 12, 2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Biography Born in Kanie, Aichi, Kurokawa studied architecture at Kyoto University, graduating with a bachelor's ...

(1934–2007), Japan * Edgar-Johan Kuusik (1888–1974), Estonia *

Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov (russian: Иван Серге́евич Кузнецов) (May 27, 1867June 3, 1942) was a Russian architect primarily known for his pre-1917 works in Moscow and Vichuga. Born into a working-class family, Kuznetsov in ...

(1867–1942), Russia

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* Thomas W. Lamb (1871–1942), US *

G. Albert Lansburgh Gustave Albert Lansburgh (January 7, 1876 – April 1969) was an American architect largely known for his work on luxury cinemas and theaters. He was the principal architect of theaters on the West Coast from 1900 to 1930. Life and career Lan ...

(1876–1969), US * Eve Laron OAM (1931–2009), Australia *

Henning Larsen Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA (20 August 1925 – 22 June 2013) was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House. Larsen studied at the Royal Danish Academ ...

(1925–2013), Denmark * Sir Denys Lasdun (1914–2001), UK *

Vilhelm Lauritzen Vilhelm Lauritzen (9 September 1894 – 22 December 1984) was a leading Danish modern architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter. Biography Vilhelm Lauritzen was born in Slagelse, Denmark. He studied ...

(1894–1984), Denmark *

John Lautner John Edward Lautner (16 July 1911 – 24 October 1994) was an American architect. Following an apprenticeship in the mid-1930s with the Taliesin Fellowship led by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner opened his own practice in 1938, where he worked for t ...

(1911–1994), US * Ricardo Legorreta (1931–2011), Mexico *

William Lescaze William Edmond Lescaze, FAIA (March 27, 1896 – February 9, 1969), was a Swiss-born American architect, city planner and industrial designer. He is ranked among the pioneers of modernism in American architecture. Biography William Lescaze ...

(1896–1969), US *

Jan Letzel Jan Letzel (April 9, 1880 – December 26, 1925) was a Czech architect, most famous for designing a building in Hiroshima whose ruins are now the A-Bomb Dome or Peace Memorial. Biography Jan Letzel was born in the town of Náchod, Bohemia. ...

(1880–1925), Czechoslovakia *

Amanda Levete Amanda Jane Levete CBE, RA (17 November 1955) explores the transformation of space through her numerous buildings and furniture pieces. Levete enjoys creating the unexpected, and exploring the utilization of opposition. Levete is known for the ...

(born 1955), UK *

Sigurd Lewerentz Sigurd Lewerentz (29 July 1885 – 29 December 1975) was a Swedish architect. Biography Lewerentz was born at Sandö in the parish of Bjärtrå in Västernorrland County, Sweden. He was the son of Gustaf Adolf Lewerentz and Hedvig Mathild ...

(1885–1975), Sweden *

Liang Sicheng Liang Sicheng (; 20 April 1901 – 9 January 1972) was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture. His father, Liang Qichao, was one of the most prominent Chinese scholars of the early ...

(1901–1972), China * Adalberto Libera (1903–1963), Italy *

Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...

(born 1946), Poland/USA * João Filgueiras Lima (1931–2014), Brazil * Maya Lin (born 1959), US *

El Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...

(1890–1941), Russia * Gordon W. Lloyd (1832–1905), US *

Leandro Locsin Leandro V. Locsin (August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994) was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of m ...

(1928–1994), Philippines *

Elmar Lohk Elmar Lohk (15 June 1901 – 11 February 1963) was an Estonian architect. Many of his buildings in Tallinn are now valued as great examples of 1930s architecture, for example, the prominent Scandic Hotel Palace on Freedom Square. His creation ca ...

(1901–1963), Estonia *

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was an inspiration to modernism and a widely- ...

(1870–1933), Austria/Czechoslovakia *

Berthold Lubetkin Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 – 23 October 1990) was a Georgian-British architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, the Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Fins ...

(1901–1990), UK/USSR * Bill Lucas (1924–2001), Australia *

Hans Luckhardt Hans Luckhardt (16 June 1890 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – 8 October 1954 in Bad Wiessee) was a German architect and the brother of Wassili Luckhardt, with whom he worked his entire life. He studied at the University of Karlsruhe with Hermann Billi ...

(1890–1954), Germany *

Wassili Luckhardt Wassili Luckhardt (22 July 1889 in Berlin – 2 December 1972 in Berlin) was a German architect. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and Dresden. Luckhardt and his brother Hans worked closely ...

(1889–1972), Germany * Owen Luder (born 1928), UK *

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memor ...

(1869–1944), UK * Ivar Lykke (born 1941), Norway *

George Washington Maher George Washington Maher (December 25, 1864 – September 12, 1926) was an American architect during the first quarter of the 20th century. He is considered part of the Prairie School-style and was known for blending traditional architecture wit ...

(1864–1926), US * Fumihiko Maki (born 1928), Japan * Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), UK * Imre Makovecz (1935–2011), Hungary *

Robert Mallet-Stevens Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) was an influential French architect and designer. Early life Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris in a house called Maison-Laffitte (designed by François Mansart in the 17th century). H ...

(1886–1945), France * Angelo Mangiarotti (1921–2012), Italy *

George R. Mann George Richard Mann (July 12, 1856 – March 20, 1939) was an American architect, trained at MIT, whose designs included the Arkansas State Capitol. He was the leading architect in Arkansas from 1900 until 1930, and his designs were among the fi ...

(1856–1939), US * Robert Matthew (1906–1975), UK * George D. Mason (1856–1948), US * Edward Maufe (1883–1974), UK * Bernard Maybeck (1862–1957), US * Wayne McAllister (1907–2000), US *

Raymond McGrath Raymond McGrath (7 March 1903 – 23 December 1977) was an Australian-born architect, illustrator, printmaker and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Principal Architect for the Office of Public Works in Ireland.Nich ...

(1903–1977), UK/Ireland * Roy Mason (1938–1996), US * François Massau, Belgium *

Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings ...

(born 1934), US * Konstantin Melnikov (1890–1974), USSR *

Erich Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic Functionalism (architecture), functionalism in his projects for department ...

(1887–1953), Germany *

Paulo Mendes da Rocha Paulo Mendes da Rocha (October 25, 1928 – May 23, 2021) was a Brazilian architect. Mendes da Rocha attended the Mackenzie Presbyterian University College of Architecture, graduating in 1954. Working almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Roch ...

(1928–2021), Brazil *

Henry Mercer Henry Chapman Mercer (June 24, 1856 – March 9, 1930) was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile-maker, and designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill, his home; the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works; and t ...

(1856–1930), US *

Geoffrey Harley Mewton Geoffrey Harley Mewton (1905–1998) was an Australian architect and leading proponent of modern architecture in Melbourne during the 1930s.Heritage Alliance (2007). "City of Bayside Inter-War & Post War Heritage Study", p.20-2/ref> He is bes ...

(1905–1998), Australia * Johan van der Mey (1878–1949), Netherlands *

Hannes Meyer Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Early life Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect ...

(1889–1954), Switzerland * Giovanni Michelucci (1891–1990), Italy *

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloy ...

(1886–1969), Germany/USA *

Andrés Mignucci Andrés Mignucci Giannoni FAIA (December 17, 1957 – November 21, 2022) was a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican architect and urbanist of Corsicans, Corsican ancestry. His work received recognition for its integration of the disciplines of architecture ...

(born 1957), Puerto Rico *

Vlado Milunić Vladimir Milunić (3 March 1941 – 17 September 2022) was a Czech architect. He was noted for designing the " Dancing House" in Prague with Frank Gehry. He also taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Early life Milunić was bo ...

(born 1941), Czech Republic *

James Rupert Miller James Rupert Miller (June 27, 1869 – August 23, 1946) was an architect active in San Francisco, California in the first half of the 20th century. Miller gained prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when his firm was one among many ...

(1869–1946), US * Dom Mintoff (1916–2012), Malta * F. A. Minuth, American, New York City *

Hadi Mirmiran Seyed Hadi Mirmiran (in Persian سید هادى ميرميران) was an Iranian architect, and manager of Naghsh-e Jahan - Pars Consulting Company. He was born in 1945 in Qazvin, received his M.A. in architecture from the faculty of fine arts of ...

(1945–2006), Iran * Enric Miralles (1955–2000), Spain * Antonio Miró Montilla (born 1937), Puerto Rico * Samuel Mockbee (1944–2001) *

Erik Møller Svend Erik Møller (7 November 1909 – 24 March 2002) was a Danish architect. Møller used to work with the famous Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen. Together they won the competition to design the new City Hall in Aarhus, which was ...

(1909–2002) * Rafael Moneo (born 1937), Spain *

Roger Montgomery Roger Montgomery (1925–2003) was an American architect, and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Roger Montgomery was born in New York City to parents Graham Livings ...

(1925–2003), US * Adolfo Moran (born 1953), Spain * Riccardo Morandi (1902–1989), Italy *

Luigi Moretti Luigi Walter Moretti (2 January 1907 – 14 July 1973) was an Italian architect. Active especially in Italy since the thirties, he designed buildings such as the Watergate Complex in Washington DC, The Academy of Fencing, and ''Il Girasole'' (" ...

(1907–1973), Italy * Arthur Cotton Moore (born 1935), US *

Charles Willard Moore Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 – December 16, 1993) was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991. He is often labeled as the father of pos ...

(1925–1993), US * Lester S. Moore (1871–1924), US *

(1872–1957), US * Raymond Moriyama (born 1929), Canada *

Eric Owen Moss Eric Owen Moss (born 1943 in Los Angeles) practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based firm founded in 1973. Education Moss was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Califo ...

(born 1943), US * Michel Mossessian (born 1959), France/UK *

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg II (September 25, 1887 – January 19, 1980) was a leading architect, an American military and political leader who served as a US Congressman from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Muhlenberg political dynasty. ...

(1887–1980), US *

Glenn Murcutt Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO (born 25 July 1936) is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Gle ...

(born 1936), Australia * C. F. Møller (1898–1988), Denmark * Barton Myers (born 1934), Canada

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* Robert Natus (1890–1950) * Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979), Italy * Peter Newell (1916–2010), Australia *

Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. H ...

(1892–1970) * Ngo Viet Thu (1926–2000), Vietnam *

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...

(1907–2012) *

Enamul Karim Nirjhar Enamul Karim Nirjhar (born 29 November 1962) is a Bangladeshi architect and filmmaker. Nirjhar is the founder and principal architect of System Architects. As one of the most prominent architectural studio practicing contemporary architecture ...

(born 1962), Bangladesh * Oscar Nitzchke (1900–1991) * Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875–1964) * Samuel Tilden Norton (1877–1959) * Ellice Nosworthy (1897–1972), Australia *

Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel (; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of ''Mars 1976'' and '' Syndicat de l'Architecture'', France’s first labor union for architects. He has o ...

(born 1945) * Martin Nyrop (1849–1921), Denmark * Gyo Obata (1923–2022) * Samuel Oghale Oboh (born 1971) Canada / Nigeria * John J. O'Malley (1915–1970), US *

Yafes Osman Yeafesh Osman (born 1 May 1946) is a Bangladeshi architect and politician who is the current minister of science and technology of Government of Bangladesh. He worked under Fazlur Rahman Khan, the notable architect of Sears Tower. Early life ...

(born 1946), Bangladesh *

Frei Otto Frei Paul Otto (; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for ...

(1925–2015) * J.J.P. Oud (1890–1963) * Félix Candela Outeriño (1910–1997), Spain/Mexico * Paul Paget (1901–1985) * Henry (Harry) Paley (1859–1946) * Mustapha Khalid Palash (born 1963), Bangladesh * Mihály (Michael) Párkányi (1924–1991) Hungary * John and Donald Parkinson (1861–1945) * John Pawson (born 1949) * Arthur Peabody (1858–1942) * I. M. Pei (1917–2019) *

César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpu ...

(1926–2019) * Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997) * Frits Peutz (1896–1974) *

Timothy L. Pflueger Timothy Ludwig Pflueger (September 26, 1892 – November 20, 1946) was an architect, interior designer and architectural lighting designer in the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of the 20th century. Together with James R. Miller, Pflue ...

(1892–1946) *

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2 ...

(born 1937), Italy * Stjepan Planić (1900–1980) * Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) *

Hans Poelzig Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer. Life Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to Countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman. Uncert ...

(1869–1936) *

Gino Pollini Gino Pollini (19 January 1903 in Rovereto – 25 January 1991 in Milan) was an Italian architect. Life Gino Pollini was born in Rovereto on January 19, 1903, to Luigi Pollini, a shopkeeper, and Teresa Miori Pollini. At the time of Pollini ...

(1903–1991), Italy *

James Polshek James Stewart Polshek (February 11, 1930September 9, 2022) was an American architect based in New York City. He was the founder of Polshek Partnership, the firm at which he was the principal design partner for more than four decades. He worked ...

(born 1930) * Donald Perry Polsky (born 1928) * Gio Ponti (1891–1979) * John Russell Pope (1874–1937) * John Portman (1924–2017) *

Christian de Portzamparc Christian de Portzamparc (; born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970 and has since been noted for his bold designs and artistic touch; his projects reflect a ...

(born 1944), France * George B. Post (1837–1913), US *

Fernand Pouillon Fernand Pouillon (14 May 1912 – 24 July 1986) was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer. Pouillon was one of the most active and influential post-World War II architects and builders in France. He is remembered fo ...

(1912-1986), France * Henry Price (1867–1944) * Alain Provost (born 1938) * Freeman A. Pretzinger *

William Gray Purcell William Gray Purcell (July 2, 1880April 11, 1965) was a Prairie School architect in the Midwestern United States. He partnered with George Grant Elmslie, and briefly with George Feick. The firm of Purcell & Elmslie produced designs for building ...

(1880–1965), US * C. W. Rapp (1860–1926), US * George L. Rapp (1878–1941), US * Isaac Rapp (1854–1933), US *

Ralph Rapson Ralph Rapson (September 13, 1914 – March 29, 2008) was Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota for 30 years. He was one of the world's oldest practicing architects at his death at age 93, and also one of the most ...

(1914–2008) * Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1898–1990) * Antonin Raymond (1888–1976), Japan/USA * Affonso Eduardo Reidy (1909–1964), Brazil *Sir

Charles Herbert Reilly Sir Charles Herbert Reilly (4 March 1874 – 2 February 1948) was an English architect and teacher. After training in two architectural practices in London he took up a part-time lectureship at the University of London in 1900, and from 1904 to ...

(1874–1948) *Sir Albert Richardson (1880–1964) *

Gerrit Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Early life Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at n ...

(1888–1964) *

Isabel Roberts Isabel Roberts (March 1871 – December 27, 1955) was a Prairie School figure, member of the architectural design team in the Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright and partner with Ida Annah Ryan in the Orlando, Florida architecture firm, "R ...

(1871–1955), US * Harry G. Robinson III (born 1942) * Kevin Roche (1922–2019) *

Ernesto Nathan Rogers Ernesto Nathan Rogers (March 16, 1909 – November 7, 1969) was an Italian architect, writer and educator. Biography Born in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1932. He is the co ...

(1909–1969) *Richard Rogers (1933–2021) *Mario Romañach (1917–1984), Havana, Cuba *Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Italy *Wirt C. Rowland (1878–1946) *Paul Rudolph (architect), Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) *Robert Tor Russell (1888–1972)

S–Z

*Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), Finland *Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950), Finland *Eugen Sacharias (1906–2002) *Moshe Safdie (born 1938) *Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952) *Rogelio Salmona (1929–2007), Spain-Colombia *Guðjón Samúelsson (1887–1950), Iceland *João Santa-Rita (born 1960) *Carlos A. Santos-Viola (1912–1994) *Louis Sauer (born 1928) *Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) *Hans Scharoun (1893–1972) *Rudolph Schindler (architect), Rudolf Schindler (1887–1953) *Elisabeth Scott (1898–1972), UK *Frederic Schwartz (1951–2014) *Paul Schmitthenner (1884–1972) *Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949) *Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) *Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) *Harry Seidler (1923–2006) *Richard Seifert (1910–2001) *Josep Lluís Sert, Joseph Lluís Sert (1902–1983) *H. Craig Severance (1879–1941) *Hooshang Seyhoun (1920–2014), Iran *Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939) *Claudio Silvestrin (born 1954) *Scott Simons (born 1952), US *Alvaro Siza (born 1933), Portugal *Howard Dwight Smith (1886–1958) *George Washington Smith (architect), George Washington Smith (1876–1930) *Alison Smithson (1928–1993) *Peter Smithson (1923–2003) *Charles B. J. Snyder (1860–1945), US *Paolo Soleri (1919–2013), Italy *Alejandro de la Sota (architect), Alejandro de la Sota (1913–1996) *Eduardo Souto de Moura (born 1952), Portugal *Albert Speer (1905–1981) *Basil Spence (1907–1976) *Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) *Sheila Sri Prakash (born 1955), India *William L. Steele (1875–1949), US *Andrew Steiner (1908–2009), Czechoslovak-American *Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) *Joseph Allen Stein (1912–2001), US, India *Robert A.M. Stern (born 1939) *John Calvin Stevens (1855–1940), US *Sir James Stirling (architect), James Stirling (1926–1992) *Edward Durrell Stone (1902–1978) *Walton Danforth Stowell (1936–2009) *James Strutt (1924–2008), Canada *Joseph Sunlight (1889–1978) *Roger Taillibert (1926–2019) *Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963), Italy, co-founder of EMBT *Alexander Tamanyan (1878–1936), Armenia *Kenzo Tange (1913–2005) *Bruno Taut (1880–1938) *Max Taut (1884–1967) *Giuseppe Terragni (1904–1943) *Quinlan Terry (born 1937) *Heinrich Tessenow (1876–1950), German *Benjamin C. Thompson (1918–2002) *Edmund von Trompowsky (1851–1919), Latvia *Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) *Bernard Tschumi (born 1944) *Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1890–1960) *Jørn Utzon (1918–2008), Denmark *Vann Molyvann (1926–2017), Cambodia *François Valentiny (born 1953), Luxembourg *William van Alen (1883–1954) *Henry Van de Velde (1863–1957) *Henri van Dievoet (1869–1931) *Antoine Varlet (1893–1940) *Robert Venturi (1925–2018) *Miguel Vila Luna (1943–2005), Dominican Republic *Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900–1975) *Rafael Viñoly (born 1944) *Roland Wank (1898–1970) *Paul Waterhouse (1861–1924), UK *Carlo Weber (1934–2014) *W. H. Weeks (1864–1936) *Carl Westman (1866–1936) *Paul Williams (architect), Paul Williams (1894–1980) *Clough Williams-Ellis (1883–1978) *Jan Wils (1891–1972) *George J. Wimberly (1914–1996) *James Wines (born 1932), US *Geoffrey Wooding (1954–2010) *Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), US *Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), US *Marcellus E. Wright Sr. (1881–1962), US *Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) *F. R. S. Yorke (1906–1962), UK *Jean-François Zevaco (1916–2003) *Milan Zloković (1898–1965) *Peter Zumthor (born 1943), Switzerland

21st-century architects

A–M

* Adolfo Moran *Alexandre Chan *Andy Martin (architect) (born 1963) *Antonio Citterio (born 1950), Italy *Arif Hasan (born 1943), Pakistan *Atsushi Kitagawara (born 1951), Japan *Basil Al Bayati (born 1946), UK *Bernard Khoury (born in 1969), Lebanon *Bjarke Ingels (born 1974), Denmark *Robby Cantarutti, Cantarutti Robby (born 1966), Italy *Carol Ross Barney (born 1949), US *Christina Cho, Australia *Christopher Charles Benninger (born 1942), India *Craig W. Hartman *

(born 1946, Poland), US *David Adjaye (born 1966), Tanzania * David M. Harper (born 1953) *David Randall Hertz (born 1960), US *Dominique Gauzin-Müller (born 1960), France *Dy Proeung, Cambodia *Eric Corey Freed *Erick van Egeraat (born 1956), Netherlands *Eugene Pandala (born 1954), India *Greg Lynn *Gregory Henriquez *Günay Erdem (born 1978, Bulgaria), Turkey *Hafeez Contractor (born 1950), India *Hans Robert Hiegel, H. R. Hiegel *Hidetsugu Aneha (born 1957), Japan *Hossein Amanat (born 1942), Iran *Ivan Harbour (born 1962), UK *James Garrison (architect), James Garrison (born 1963), US *Jeanne Gang (born 1964), US *Jimenez Lai *Jing Liu (architect), Jing Liu *Jun'ya Ishigami (born 1974), Japan *Kamel Mahadin (born 1954), Jordan *Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956), Japan *Kees Christiaanse (born 1953), Netherlands *Keith Griffiths (architect), Keith Griffiths (born 1954), UK *Kengo Kuma *Kevin Kennon *Lise Anne Couture (born 1959), Canada *Marco Casagrande (born 1971), Finland * Mariam Kamara (born 1979), Niger *Massimiliano Fuksas, Italy * Maya Lin, US * Michael Middleton Dwyer, US *Michael Green (architect), Michael Green, Canada *Michel Abboud (born 1977), Lebanon *Nabil Gholam (born 1962), Lebanon *Norman Foster, (born 1935), UK *Odile Decq, (born 1955), France *Olajumoke Adenowo (born 1968), Nigeria *

(born 1932), United States *Peter Exley, US *Pouya Khazaeli (born 1975), Iran * Rafiq Azam, Bangladesh *

(born 1944), Netherlands *Roger Duffy *Ron Arad (industrial designer), Ron Arad (born 1951), Israel *Sean Godsell (born 1960), Australia *Shigeru Ban (born 1957), Japan *Sir Terry Farrell, UK *Sou Fujimoto (born 1971), Japan *Stefano Boeri, Italy *Stephan Braunfels (born 1950), Germany *Steven Holl (born 1947), US *Sue Courtenay, Belize *Sunay Erdem (born 1971, Bulgaria), Turkey *Tatiana Bilbao, Mexico *T.J. Gottesdiener *Terence Conran (1931–2020, United Kingdom) *Thom Mayne *Thomas Doerr (born 1964), US *Thomas Herzog *Tom Kundig *Tony Fretton (born 1945), UK *Toshiko Mori, Japan *Toyo Ito (born 1941), Japan *Wiel Arets (born 1955), Netherlands *William McDonough *Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), UK

N-Z

*Florent Nédélec *

* Samuel Oghale Oboh (born 1971), Canada / Nigeria *Liz Ogbu *Neri Oxman *Satyendra Pakhale (born 1967), India * Mustapha Khalid Palash *Bimal Patel (architect), Bimal Patel (born 1961), India *Thomas Phifer *

, Italy *Dimitris Potiropoulos *Antoine Predock *Joshua Prince-Ramus *Philippe Rahm *Richard Rogers, UK *Fernando Romero, Mexico *Lawrence Scarpa *Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956), Japan *Adrian Smith (architect), Adrian Smith *Galia Solomonoff *Sheila Sri Prakash (born 1955), India *Paul Steelman (born 1955), US *Marshall Strabala *Sergei Tchoban (born 1962), Russian-born architect *Jack Travis (born 1952), US *Victor Vechersky (born 1958), Ukraine *Ross Wimer *Wang Shu (born 1963), China *Jörg Stollmann, Germany *Wilfried van Winden (born 1955) *Gert Wingårdh (born 1951), Sweden *Jun Xia (architect), Jun Xia, China *Ken Yeang (born 1948), Malaysia

Mythological/fictional architects

Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek mythology, Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan Vivasvat. Moreover, Indian epic Mahabharata cites amazing work by architect 'Mayasura, Maya.' Architects also occur in modern fiction. Examples include The Fountainhead#Howard Roark, Howard Roark, protagonist in Ayn Rand's ''The Fountainhead''; Bloody Stupid Johnson, a parody of Capability Brown who appears in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' novels; and Slartibartfast, designer of planets in Douglas Adams's ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Basil Al Bayati's novel ''The Age of Metaphors'' on the theme of Metaphoric Architecture is also replete with fictional architects. The main characters of Sa'ad, Shiymaa and Sa'im are all architects, as are a number of others who appear throughout the book. Many films have included central characters who are architects, including Henry Fonda's character "Juror 8" (Davis) in ''12 Angry Men (1957 film), 12 Angry Men'' (1957), Charles Bronson's character in ''Death Wish (1974 film), Death Wish'' (1974), John Cassavetes' character in ''Tempest (1982 film), Tempest'' (1982), Wesley Snipes' character in "Jungle Fever" (1991), Christopher Lloyd's character in ''Suburban Commando'' (1991), Tom Hanks' character in ''Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993), David Strathairn's character in ''The River Wild'' (1994), Michael J. Fox's character in ''The Frighteners'' (1996), Michael Keaton's character in ''White Noise (2005 film), White Noise'' (2005) and Jeremy Irons' character in ''High-Rise (film), High-Rise'' (2015). In television, Characters of The Brady Bunch, Mike Brady, father of ''The Brady Bunch'', is an architect; as is Wilbur Post, owner of ''Mister Ed''; Ted Mosby, from ''How I Met Your Mother''; and David Vincent from ''The Invaders''. Adam Cartwright of ''Bonanza'' was an architectural engineer with a university education who designed the sprawling familial ranch-house on the Ponderosa Ranch. The character George Costanza pretends to be an architect named "Art Vandelay" in ''Seinfeld''. Architect Halvard Solness is the protagonist of Henrick Ibsen's 1892 play ''The Master Builder''.

Lists of architects by country

References

External links

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