Biographies: Notable Architects
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Notable Architects
- Aalto, Alvar, Finnish architect and furniture designer
- Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, British architect and town planner
- Adam, Robert, and James Adam, Scottish architects
- Alberti, Leone Battista, Italian architect, musician, painter, and humanist
- Ando, Tadao, Japanese architect
- Androuet du Cerceau, family of French architects
- Anthemius of Tralles, Greek architect, engineer, and mathematician
- Apollodorus of Damascus, Roman architect and engineer
- Arnolfo di Cambio, Italian architect and sculptor
- Bacon, Henry, American architect
- Barry, Sir Charles, English architect
- Behrens, Peter, German architect
- Belluschi, Pietro, Italian-American civil engineer
- Benjamin, Asher, American architect
- Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, Italian sculptor and architect
- Bodley, George Frederick, English architect
- Bogardus, James, American architect
- Böhm, Dominikus, German architect
- Borromini, Francesco, Italian baroque architect
- Bramante, Donato, Italian Renaissance architect and painter
- Breuer, Marcel Lajos, American architect and furniture designer
- Brosse, Salomon de, French architect
- Brunelleschi, Filippo, Italian Renaissance architect
- Bulfinch, Charles, American architect
- Bunshaft, Gordon, American architect
- Burnham, Daniel Hudson, American architect and city planner
- Calatrava, Santiago, Spanish architect
- Callicrates, Greek architect
- Campbell, Colin, Scottish architect
- Carrí¨re, John Merven, American architect
- Chalgrin, Jean Franí§ois, French architect
- Chambers, Sir William, English architect
- Churriguera, José Benito, Spanish architect and sculptor
- Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da, Italian baroque painter and architect
- Costa, Lí»cio, Brazilian architect
- Cram, Ralph Adams, American architect
- Davis, Alexander Jackson, American architect
- Delorme, Philibert, French architect
- Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, Austrian baroque architect
- Flagg, Ernest, American architect
- Fontaine, Pierre Franí§ois Léonard, French architect
- Fontana, Carlo, Italian architect
- Fontana, Domenico, Italian architect
- Foster, Norman Robert, British architect,
- Fuller, R. Buckminster, American architect and engineer
- Gabriel, Jacques Ange, French architect
- Garnier, Jean Louis Charles, French architect
- Gaudí i Cornet, Antonio, Spanish architect
- Gehry, Frank Owen, American architect
- Gibbs, James, English architect
- Gilbert, Cass, American architect
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, American architect
- Graves, Michael, American architect
- Greene and Greene, American architectural firm
- Gropius, Walter, German-American architect
- Guarini, Guarino, Italian architect
- Guimard, Hector, French architect and furniture designer
- Harrison, Wallace Kirkman, American architect and city planner
- Hastings, Thomas, American architect
- Hawksmoor, Nicholas, English architect
- Hoban, James, American architect
- Hunt, Richard Morris, American architect
- Ictinus, Greek architect
- Isozaki, Arata, Japanese architect
- Johnson, Philip Cortelyou, American architect, museum curator, and historian
- Jones, Inigo, England architect
- Juvarra, Filippo, Italian architect
- Kahn, Louis Isadore, American architect
- Koolhaas, Rem, Dutch architect
- Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, American architect
- Le Corbusier, French architect
- Le Vau, Louis, French architect
- Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, French architect
- Lescot, Pierre, French Renaissance architect
- Libeskind, Daniel, American architect
- Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer, English architect
- Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, Scottish architect
- Mansart, Franí§ois, French architect
- Mansart, Jules Hardouin, French architect
- Maybeck, Bernard, American architect
- McComb, John, American architect
- McIntire, Samuel, American architect and woodcarver
- McKim, Charles Follen, American architect
- Meier, Richard, American architect
- Mendelsohn, Erich, German architect
- Meyer, Hannes, Swiss architect
- Michelozzo Michelozzi, Italian sculptor, architect, goldsmith, and founder
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, German-American architect
- Mills, Robert, American architect
- Nash, John, English architect
- Nervi, Pier Luigi, Italian architectural engineer
- Neutra, Richard Joseph, American architect
- Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, Brazilian architect
- Otto, Frei, German architect
- Oud, Jacobus Johannes Pieter, Dutch architect
- Palladio, Andrea, Italian architect of the Renaissance
- Pei, I. M., Chinese-American architect
- Pelli, César, American architect,
- Percier, Charles, French architect
- Perrault, Claude, French architect
- Perret, Auguste, French architect
- Peruzzi, Baldassare, Italian architect and painter
- Piano, Renzo, Italian architect
- Platt, Charles Adams, American architect
- Pope, John Russell, American architect
- Post, George Browne, American architect
- Rainaldi, Carlo, Italian architect
- Renwick, James, American architect
- Richardson, Henry Hobson, American architect
- Rogers, James Gamble, American architect
- Root, John Wellborn, American architect
- Rudolph, Paul Marvin, American modernist architect
- Saarinen, Eero, Finnish-American architect
- Saarinen, Eliel, Finnish-American architect and city planner
- Safdie, Moshe, Israeli-Canadian architect
- Sangallo, Italian Renaissance architects
- Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, German architect and painter
- Scott, Sir George Gilbert, English architect
- Semper, Gottfried, German architect
- Serlio, Sebastiano, Italian Renaissance architect and theoretician
- Shaw, Richard Norman, English architect
- Sinan, Muslim architect
- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, American architectural firm
- Smirke, Sir Robert, English architect
- Smythson, Robert, English architect of the Elizabethan era
- Soane, Sir John, English architect
- Soufflot, Jacques Germain, French architect
- Stern, Robert A. M., American architect
- Stirling, Sir James Frazer, British architect
- Stone, Edward Durell, American architect
- Strickland, William, American architect of the classic revival
- Sturgis, Russell, American architect and writer
- Sullivan, Louis Henry, American architect
- Tange, Kenzo, Japanese architect
- Thornton, William, American architect
- Upjohn, Richard, American architect
- Urban, Joseph Maria, American architect and scene designer
- Vasari, Giorgio, Italian architect
- Venturi, Robert, American architect
- Vignola, Giacomo da, late Renaissance architects in Italy
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugí¨ne Emmanuel, French architect and writer
- Wagner, Otto, Austrian architect
- Walter, Thomas Ustick, American architect
- Warren, Whitney, American architect
- Webb, Philip Speakman, English architect
- White, Stanford, American architect
- Wood, John, English architect
- Wren, Sir Christopher, English architect.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, American architect,
- Wurster, William Wilson, American architect
- Wyatt, James, English architect
- Yamasaki, Minoru, American architect
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