Following is a list of Italian architects.

Early architects

Medieval 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 ...

* Pietro Baseggio * Giotto di Bondone *

* Jacopo Celega *

Andrea Orcagna Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – 25 August 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. He worked as a consultant at the Florence Cathedral and supervised the construction of the fa ...

* Andrea Pisano * Giovanni Pisano

Renaissance architects

* Aloisio da Milano * Aloisio the New * Baccio D'Agnolo *

Giovanni Battista Aleotti Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546 – 12 December 1636) was an Italian architect. Biography Aleotti was born in Argenta, Italy, Argenta. For some years, Aleotti went to Ferrara, to work under Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II d'Este where with ...

* Leon Battista Alberti * Galeazzo Alessi *

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 ''Bibli ...

* Donato Bramante * Bramantino *

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 ...

* Michelangelo Buonarroti * Bernardo Buontalenti * Giovanni Antonio Dosio * Giacomo del Duca * Luca Fancelli * Giovanni Maria Falconetto * Aristotile Fioravanti *

Domenico Fontana Domenico Fontana (154328 June 1607) was an Italian architect of the late Renaissance, born in today's Ticino. He worked primarily in Italy, at Rome and Naples. Biography He was born at Melide, a village on the Lake Lugano, at that time joint ...

* Girolamo Genga *

Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo (c. 1510 in Siena-c. 1574) was a 16th-century Italian architect. He is principally remembered for his ''I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura'' (1554), a set of four books on architectural theory. In order, the books cov ...

* Orazio Grassi * Pirro Ligorio *

Annibale Lippi Annibale Lippi (16th century-Rome, after 18 November 1581) was an Italian architect active during the second half of 16th century. He was son of the sculptor and architect Nanni di Baccio Bigio. Pupil of Francesco Salviati, his only certain work ...

* Pietro Lombardo * Martino Longhi the Elder * Onorio Longhi * Luciano Laurana *

Annibale Maggi Annibale Maggi was a Venetian architect of the Renaissance period. He designed and help build the loggia del Consiglio in Padua in 1493, and was the architect of the house of San Giovanni degli Specchi. Also known as ''Annibale Bassano'' or ''da B ...

known as Da Bassano * Giuliano da Maiano * Antonio Manetti *

Fabio Mangone Fabio Mangone (1587–1629) was an Italian architect. Born in Caravaggio, he was a pupil of Alessandro Bisnati, and succeeded him as architect for the Duomo of Milan. Later he was professor architecture at the Accademia Ambrosiana. He was assi ...

Giovanni Mangone Giovanni Mangone (born towards the end of 15th century, died 25 June 1543) was an Italian artist active almost exclusively in Rome during the Renaissance. Mangone's skills were manifold: he worked as sculptor, architect, stonecutter and building ...

* Francesco di Giorgio Martini * Filarete *

Michelozzo Michelozzi Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi (1396 – 7 October 1472) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Considered one of the great pioneers of architecture during the Renaissance, Michelozzo was a favored Medici architect who was extensively empl ...

Nanni di Baccio Bigio Nanni di Baccio Bigio, a pseudonym of Giovanni Lippi (1507? – 1568), was an Italian architect who lived during the 16th century. Works A versatile architect, he had originally set out to be a sculptor working under Raffaello da Montelupo. After ...

* Andrea Palladio *

Alfonso Parigi Alfonso Parigi the Younger (1606–1656) was an Italian architect and scenographer, the son of Giulio Parigi, and grandson of Alfonso Parigi the Elder. He worked mainly in Florence, beginning at a very early age as his father's assistant. After t ...

* Baldassarre Peruzzi * Petrok Maly *

Simone del Pollaiolo Simone del Pollaiolo (1457–1508) was a Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca ("The Chronicle One"). Pollaiolo was born in Florence, the nephew of the better-known brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname '' ...

* Antonio da Ponte *

Flaminio Ponzio Flaminio Ponzio (1560–1613) was an Italian architect during the late-Renaissance or so-called Mannerist period, serving in Rome as the architect for Pope Paul V. Ponzio was born in Viggiù near Varese, and he died in Rome. After juvenile ...

* Giacomo della Porta * Giorgio da Sebenico * Giulio Romano * Bernardo Rossellino * Antonio da Sangallo the Elder * Antonio da Sangallo the Younger * Giuliano da Sangallo *

Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 – 27 November 1570) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, best known for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. These are crucial works in the history of Venetian Renaissance archi ...

* Michele Sanmicheli * Raffaello Santi known as Raphael * Vincenzo Scamozzi * Sebastiano Serlio * Giorgio Vasari * Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola * Leonardo da Vinci * Ascanio Vittozzi

Baroque architects

Giovan Battista Aleotti Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546 – 12 December 1636) was an Italian architect. Biography Aleotti was born in Argenta, Italy, Argenta. For some years, Aleotti went to Ferrara, to work under Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II d'Este where with ...

* Alessandro Algardi *

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 ...

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

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 ...

Giovanni Pietro de Pomis Giovanni Pietro de Pomis (ca.1565 or 1569/70 – 6 March 1633) was an Italian painter, medailleur, architect and fortress master builder. His works show a marked influence of late- Mannerism. Biography De Pomis was born in Lodi, Lomb ...

* Cosimo Fanzago * Carlo Fontana * Ferdinando Fuga * Rosario Gagliardi *

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 ...

* Galli Bibiena * Antonio Gherardi *

Andrea Giganti Andrea Giganti (18 September 1731 – 4 November 1787) was an Italians, Italian architect of the Sicilian Baroque era. He was born in Trapani in 1731. In his youth, he studied architecture under Giovanni Biagio Amico (1684–1754). Around 1751, G ...

Giovanni Battista Gisleni Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600 – 3 May 1672) was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the Polish-Lithuanian royal court. Gisleni was born and died in Rome. He served three Polish kings of th ...

* Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi *

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 wa ...

Angelo Italia Angelo Italia (8 May 1628 – 5 May 1700) was an Italian Jesuit and Baroque architect, who was born in Licata and died in Palermo. He designed a number of churches in Sicily, and later worked to reconstruct three cities following the 1693 Sic ...

* Stefano Ittar * Filippo Juvarra *

Paolo Labisi Paolo Labisi was an 18th-century Italian architect. He worked principally in the Baroque style. His most notable works are in the Sicilian town of Noto, which was completely rebuilt on a new site following the earthquake of 1693. Labisi's work l ...

Giulio Lasso Giulio Lassi, also known as Lasso and Scalzo (born before 1569; died 1612) was an Italian sculptor and architect, best known for his work in Palermo, Sicily. He was born, presumably in Rome, from Giovanni Domenico Lassi, a carpenter, and Camilla ...

* Giacomo Leoni * Baldassarre Longhena * Martino Longhi the Younger * Carlo Maderno *

Domenico Martinelli Domenico Martinelli (November 30, 1650 – September 11, 1718) was an Italian architect who worked for Carlo Fontana during 1678. He was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps. In 2010 a musical tribute called "Projec ...

Ottavio Mascherino Ottaviano Nonni (1536 – 6 August 1606), called Il Mascherino, was an Italian architect, sculptor, and painter born in Bologna. Apprentice of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, he was active in Emilia (region of Italy), Emilia and in Rome, where he had be ...

* Giorgio Massari * Giovan Battista Montano *

Tomasso Napoli Tommaso Maria Napoli (16 April 1659 – 12 June 1725) was an Italian architect, Dominican Order monk, engineer and mathematician. Biography Born at Palermo, Tommaso Napoli received his training under Andrea Cirrincione as a novitiate in the Conv ...

* Giovanni Battista Nolli * Andrea Palma * Giovanni Paolo Pannini * Giovanni Battista Piranesi * Filippo Raguzzini *

Girolamo Rainaldi Girolamo Rainaldi (4 May 1570 – 15 July 1655) was an Italian architect who worked mainly in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects. He was a successful competitor of Bernini. His son, Carlo Rainaldi, became an even ...

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 ...

Pietro Rosa Pietro Rosa (November 10, 1810 in Rome – August 15, 1891 in Rome) was an Italian architect and topographer. He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in R ...

* Mattia de Rossi *

Nicola Sabbatini Nicola Sabbatini (1574 – 25 December 1654), also known as Niccolò Sabbatini or Nicola Sabbattini, was an Italian architect of the Baroque. A native of Pesaro, he was extremely influential at the time for his pioneering and inventive desig ...

* Nicola Salvi * Francesco de Sanctis *

Ferdinando Sanfelice Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675 – 1 April 1748) was an Italian late Baroque architect and painter. Sanfelice was born in Naples and died there. He was one of the principal architects in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. He was a studen ...

* Giuseppe Sardi * Vincenzo Sinatra * Giovanni Battista Soria * Alessandro Specchi * Giovanni Battista Vaccarini * Luigi Vanvitelli *

Giuseppe Vasi Giuseppe Vasi (27 August 1710 – 16 April 1782) was an Italian engraver and architect, best known for his ''vedute''. Biography He was born in Corleone, Sicily and later, around 1736, moved to Rome. After a period of intense visits and studies, ...

Bernardo Vittone 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 region of Northern Italy; the other tw ...

Giacomo Zanetti Giacomo Zanetti (c.1696–1735), born probably in Lugano, was an Italian master builder and architect active in Casale Monferrato. He was responsible for some of the most interesting baroque buildings constructed in the town during the years fol ...

Neoclassical and eclectic architects

Ferdinando Albertolli Ferdinando Albertolli (11 November 1780 – 24 April 1844) was a Swiss-born Italian architect and a professor of design. Biography Born in Bedano near Lugano, Switzerland, Albertolli was educated at Milan's Brera Academy where he was instructed ...

* Giovanni Antonio Antolini *

Giovan Battista Filippo Basile Giovan Battista Filippo Basile (August 8, 1825 in Palermo – June 16, 1891) was an Italian architect. Born to a family of humble means. From childhood, Vincenzo Tineo, an erudite horticulturalist in Palermo, recognized Basile's talent, and was ...

Pietro Camporese the Elder Pietro Camporese the Elder (1726–1781) was an Italian architect. Life Camporese was born and died in Rome, the first of a family of architects active in the city in the 18th and 19th centuries. His sons Giuseppe and Giulio are recorded as co ...

Pietro Camporese the Younger Pietro Camporese the Younger (1792–1873) was an Italian neoclassical architect. He was the grandson of the architect Pietro Camporese the Elder. Architecture Works * From 1825 Camporese worked with Pasquale Belli on the reconstruction of th ...

Costantino Fiaschetti Costantino Fiaschetti was an 18th-century Roman architect. He is mostly known today for the Fountain in the Piazza del Mercato in Spoleto Spoleto (, also , , ; la, Spoletum) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-centra ...

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 Domenic ...

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia (6 February 1729 – 19 December 1814) was an Italian architect. Biography Marvuglia received his first training in his native Palermo. This was followed by a stay in Rome from 1747 to 1759. By the end of his time ...

* Giuseppe Mengoni * Giuseppe Piermarini * Giovanni Battista Piranesi *

Leopoldo Pollack Leopoldo Pollack (1751 – 13 March 1806) was an Austrian-born Italian architect who was active in Milan where he became one of the leading proponents of Neoclassical architecture. Career In Vienna, Pollack was trained by Paul Ulrich Trientl be ...

* Bartolomeo Rastrelli * Antonio Rinaldi * Carlo Rossi * Giuseppe Sacconi *

Faustino Trebbi Faustino Trebbi (Budrio, 1761 – Bologna, 1836) was an Italian architect and ornamental painter, often active in painting quadratura frescoes. His son Raffaele learned painting from his father; while his son Mauro became a professor of Chemist ...

* Domenico Trezzini * Giacomo Quarenghi * Giuseppe Valadier * Rodolfo Vantini * Antonio Visentini *

Giuseppe Zanoia Giuseppe Zanoia (1752–1817) was an Italian Neoclassical architect who is remembered for his Porta Nuova in Milan. He also collaborated on the Neogothic design of Milan's Duomo. Biography A canon at Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, he also ...

20th-century architects

* Archizoom Associati * Pietro Belluschi *

Luca Beltrami Luca Beltrami (November 13, 1854 – August 8, 1933) was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects. Biography Beltrami was born in Milan. He was initially a student at the Politecnico in Mi ...

* Ernesto Basile *

Alziro Bergonzo Alziro Bergonzo (30 December 1906 – 22 May 1997) was an Italian architect and painter. His primary style was the rationalized ''Stile Littorio''. He was the son of Luigi Bergonzo, an engineering graduate from Bern who had moved to Bergamo i ...

Achille Castiglioni Achille Castiglioni (; 16 February 1918 – 2 December 2002) was an Italian architect and designer of furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not curious, forget it. ...

* Francesco Cosenza * Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco * Giancarlo De Carlo * Florestano Di Fausto *

Emanuele Fiano Emanuele (Lele) Fiano (born 13 March 1963, in Milan, Italy) is a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the centre-left Partito Democratico (Democratic Party of Italy). A prominent figure in the Italian Jewish community, Fiano is a pas ...

* Romaldo Giurgola * Giorgio Grassi * Adalberto Libera * Angelo Mangiarotti * Vico Magistretti * Angiolo Mazzoni * Giovanni Michelucci * Carlo Mollino * Luigi Moretti * Pier Luigi Nervi * Giuseppe Pagano * Marcello Piacentini *

Pio Piacentini Pio Piacentini (5 September 1846 – 4 April 1928) was an Italian architect, the father of Marcello Piacentini. He is best known for his Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Life He was born in Rome and trained in the Academy of St. Luke. Pi ...

* Giò Ponti * Ernesto Nathan Rogers partner of architecture firm BBPR *

Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponen ...

Antonio Sant'Elia Antonio Sant'Elia (; 30 April 1888 – 10 October 1916) was an Italian architect and a key member of the Futurist movement in architecture. He left behind almost no completed works of architecture and is primarily remembered for his bold sk ...

Afra and Tobia Scarpa Afra and Tobia Scarpa are award winning postmodern Italian architects and designers. Their pieces can be found in museums across the United States and Europe, including collections in MoMA and the Louvre Museum. They have collaborated with com ...

Carlo Scarpa Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the te ...

* Ettore Sottsass *

Superstudio Superstudio was an architectural firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro and Roberto Magris, Alessandro Poli. Superstudio was a major part of ...

* Manfredo Tafuri * Giuseppe Terragni * Bruno Zevi

Contemporary architects

* Gae Aulenti * Mario Bellini * Cini Boeri * Robby Cantarutti * Massimiliano Fuksas * Vittorio Gregotti * Angelo Mangiarotti * Alessandro Mendini * Renzo Piano *

Paolo Portoghesi Paolo Portoghesi (born 2 November 1931, Rome) is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He is a former president of the architectural section of the Venice Biennale (1979–92 ...

Italo Rota Italo Rota (Milan, 2 October 1953) is an Italian architect. Biography Born in Milan in 1953, he obtained a degree in Architecture at Milan Polytechnic University in 1982. Before that, he had started off in the architecture firms of Franco Alb ...

* Paolo Soleri * Benedetta Tagliabue * Matteo Thun