These architects are among the best known in history. Dates given for major works are completion dates. Architects have been chosen for their influence on the history of architecture, as well as for the fame and importance of their works.
|
Name |
Dates |
Nationality |
Major Works |
|---|---|---|---|
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Aalto, Alvar |
1898–1976 |
Finnish |
Finlandia Conference Center, Helsinki (1975); Baker Dormitory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1949) |
|
Adam, Robert |
1728–1792 |
English |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (1776); Apsley House, London (1778) |
|
Alberti, Leone Battista |
1404–1472 |
Italian |
Sant’ Andra, Mantua (1472); façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1471) |
|
Andrews, John |
1933– |
Australian |
American Express Tower, Sydney (1970); School of Art, Kent State University (1970) |
|
Apollodorus of Damascus |
2nd century |
Roman |
Trajan’s Baths, Rome (109); Trajan’s Forum, Rome (112) |
|
Ashbee, C. R. |
1863–1942 |
English |
The Wodehouse, Staffordshire (1901) |
|
Asplund, Erik Gunner |
1885–1943 |
Swedish |
Bredenburg Department Store, Stockholm (1935); Goteburg Law Courts Annex (1937) |
|
Barragán, Luis |
1902–1987 |
Mexican |
Hotel Pierre Marquez Gardens, Acapulco (1955); Eggerstrom House, Mexico City (1968) |
|
Barry, Charles |
1795–1860 |
English |
Houses of Parliament, London (1860) |
|
Bentley, John Francis |
1830–1902 |
English |
Westminster Cathedral, London (1903) |
|
Berlage, Hendrick Petrus |
1856–1934 |
Dutch |
Municipal Museum, The Hague (1935); Stock Exchange, Amsterdam (1903) |
|
Bernini, Gioanlorezo |
1598–1680 |
Italian |
St. Peter’s, Rome (1626 renovation); Piazza di San Pietro, Rome (1667) |
|
Borromini, Francesco |
1599–1667 |
Italian |
Lateran Tombs, Rome (1655); Villa Falconieri, Frascati (1667) |
|
Bramante, Donate |
1444–1514 |
Italian |
S. Maria Presso San Satiro, Milan (1478 renovation); Belvedere Court (1504) |
|
Brunelleschi, Filippo |
1377–1446 |
Italian |
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence (cupola, lantern & tribune morte) (1446) |
|
Burlington, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of |
1664–1753 |
English |
Wade House, London (1723); Assembly Rooms, York (1732) |
|
Burton, Decimus |
1800–1881 |
English |
Cornwall Terrace, London (nd); Hyde Park Screen, London (1825) |
|
Butterfield, William |
1814–1900 |
English |
Keble College, Oxford (1883); All Saints, (London) 1859 |
|
Chambers, William |
1732–1790 |
English |
Trent Palace, Middlesex (1777); Theatre Royal, Liverpool (1772) |
|
Cortona, Pietro |
1596–1669 |
Italian |
Santi Luci et Marchina, Rome (1650) |
|
Deane, Thomas |
1792–1871 |
Irish |
Museum of Natural History, Oxford (1861); Trinity College Library, Dublin (1862) |
|
Fischer von Erlach, Johann |
1656–1723 |
Austrian |
Holy Trinity Plague Column, Vienna (1689); Imperial Library, Vienna (1730) |
|
Gandon, James |
1743–1823 |
Irish |
County Hall, Nottingham (1772); Emsworth, Dublin (1794) |
|
Gaudi, Antonio |
1852–1926 |
Spanish |
Casa Vicens, Barcelona (1880); Casa Mila, Barcelona (1910) |
|
Gibbs, James |
1682–1754 |
Scottish |
Alexander Pope Villa, Middlesex (1720); Radcliffe Library, Oxford (1754) |
|
Gehry, Frank |
1929– |
American |
California Aerospace Museum, Santa Monica (1984); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997) |
|
Goff, Bruce |
1904–1982 |
American |
Hopewell Baptist Church, Oklahoma (1950); Nicol House, Kansas City (1967) |
|
Gomez de Mora, Juan |
1580–1648 |
Spanish |
Encarnación Church, Madrid (1611–16) |
|
Gropius, Walter |
1883–1969 |
German |
Chicago Tribune Building, Chicago (1922); Pan Am Building, New York (1957) |
|
Guimard, Hector |
1867–1942 |
French |
Humbert De Romans Auditorium, Paris (1901) |
|
Hansen, Christian |
1803–1883 |
Danish |
Mint, Athens (1836); Observatory, Copenhagen (1861) |
|
Hildebrandt, Johann |
1668–1745 |
Austrian |
Garden House, Siebenbrunn Palace (1730); Parish Church, Asperdorf (1733) |
|
Hittorff, Jacques |
1792–1867 |
German |
Church of St. Vincent De Paul, Paris (1848) |
|
Horta, Victor |
1861–1947 |
Belgian |
Horta House, Belgium (1989); Hallet House, Brussels (1903) |
|
Iktinos |
c.450–400 BC |
Greek |
The Parthenon, Athens (437 BC) |
|
Jefferson, Thomas |
1742–1826 |
American |
Monticello, Virginia (1782) |
|
Jones, Inigo |
1573–1652 |
English |
Whitehall Palace, London (1622); Somerset House, London (1635) |
|
Kahn, Albert |
1869–1942 |
American |
General Motors Building, Detroit (1925); Fisher Building, Detroit (1929) |
|
Keyser, Hendrick de |
1565–1621 |
Dutch |
Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1614) |
|
Krier, Rob |
1938– |
Austrian |
Façade for Hotel, Salzburg Germany (1988); Apartment Building, Bilbao Spain (1992) Medical Facility Buildings Complex, Belgium (1977) |
|
Kroll, Lucien |
1927– |
Belgian |
Medical Facility Buildings Complex, Belgium (1977) |
|
Latrobe, Benjamin |
1764–1820 |
American |
Roman Catholic Cathedral, Baltimore (1818); Capitol Building, Washington DC (1817) |
|
Le Brun, Charles |
1619–1690 |
French |
Palais de Versailles (1678) |
|
Le Corbusier |
1887–1965 |
French |
Villa Planiex, Paris (1927); Musuem, Ahmedabad India (1957) |
|
Loos, Adolf |
1870–1933 |
Czecho-slovakian |
American bar, Vienna (1907); Muller House, Prague (1930) |
|
Lutyens, Edwin Landeer |
1869–1944 |
English |
Munstead Wood, Surrey (1896); Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1899) |
|
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie |
1868–1928 |
Scottish |
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (1909) |
|
Maki, Fumihiko |
1928– |
Japanese |
Toyota Memorial Hall, Nagoya (1960); National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (1986) |
|
Mansart, Francois |
1598–1666 |
French |
Chateau of Berny (1623); Hotel du Jars, Paris (1645) |
|
Meier, Richard |
1934– |
American |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1983); Getty Center, Los Angeles (1997) |
|
Mendelson, Erich |
1887–1953 |
German-born American |
Atomic Energy Commission Labratories, Berkeley (1953) |
|
Michelangelo Buonarrati |
1475–1564 |
Italian |
San Lorenzo façade, Florence (1517); St. Peter’s, Rome (1564) |
|
Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig |
1886–1969 |
German-born American |
Wolf House, Germany (1926); Toronto Dominion Center, Canada (1969) |
|
Moore, Charles W. |
1925–1993 |
American |
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover NH (1985) |
|
Morgan, Julia |
1872–1957 |
American |
Elliott House, Berkeley CA (1920); Hearst Estate, California (1941) |
|
Nash, John |
1752–1835 |
English |
Terraces and facades, Regents Park, London (1827) |
|
Neumann, Johann |
1687–1753 |
German |
High Altar, Cathedral of Worms (1749); Schloss Augustusburg (1748) |
|
Neutra, Richard |
1892–1970 |
Austrian-born American |
Lincoln Memorial Museum, Gettysburg PA (1959); Hall of Records, Los Angeles (1961) |
|
Niemeyer, Oscar |
1907– |
Brazilian |
City of Brasília (1964); Mondadori Headquarters, Milan (1975) |
|
O’Gorman, Juan |
1905–1982 |
Mexican |
Diego Rivera House, Mexico City (1930); Juan O’Gorman House II (1956) |
|
Olmstead, Frederick Law |
1822–1903 |
American |
Park System, Rochester NY (1888); United States Capitol Grounds (1874) |
|
Palladio, Andrew |
1508–1580 |
Italian |
Villa of Leonardo Emo, Vincenza, Italy (1567) |
|
Pei, I. M. |
1917– |
American |
Le Grand Louvre, Paris (1983) |
|
Perrault, Claude |
1613–1688 |
French |
East Façade of the Louvre, Paris (1670) |
|
Piano, Renzo |
1937– |
Italian |
Centre Pompidou, Paris (1977 with Richard Rogers) |
|
Playfair, William |
1790–1857 |
English |
Donaldson Hospital, Edinburgh (1842–54); National Gallery of Scotland (1850–57) |
|
Plecnik, Joze |
1872–1957 |
Yugoslav |
Market, Ljubljana (1942); Monastery of the German Knights, Ljubljana (1953) |
|
Pugin, Augustus |
1812–1852 |
English |
Manor House, Wiburton (1848); St. Augustine’s Church, Kent (1850) |
|
Rastrelli, Bartolomeo |
1700–1771 |
Russian |
Fourth Winter Palace, Petrograd (1762) |
|
Renwick, James |
1818–1895 |
American |
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (1855) |
|
Richardson, Henry |
1838–1886 |
American |
Grace Church, Massachusetts (1869); City Hall, Albany NY (1882) |
|
Riefveld, Gerrit T. |
1888–1964 |
Dutch |
Juliana Hall and Entrance, Utrecht (1956); Van Sloobe House, Heerlen (1964) |
|
Roebling, John |
1806–1859 |
American |
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City (1883) |
|
Roebling, Washington Augustus |
1837–1926 |
American |
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City (1883 with father, John) |
|
Saarien, Eliel |
1910–1961 |
Finnish |
Railway station, Viborg (1904); City Hall, Lahti (1912) |
|
Sansovino, Jacopo |
1486–1570 |
Italian |
Piazza San Marco, Venice (1540) |
|
Schindler, Rudolph |
1887–1953 |
American |
Buena Shore Club, Chicago (1918); Tucker House, Hollywood (1950) |
|
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich |
1791–1841 |
German |
Schauspielhaus, Berlin (1821) |
|
Scott, H. M. Baillie |
1865–1945 |
English |
The Garth, Cobham, Surrey (1900); Oakhams, Kent (1921) |
|
Scott, George Gilbert |
1811–1878 |
English |
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford (1860); St. Mary Abbots Church, London (1872) |
|
Shaw, Richard Norman |
1831–1913 |
English |
New Scotland Yard, London (1907) |
|
Soane, John |
1753–1857 |
English |
St. Peter’s Church, Walworth (1824); Holy Trinity Marylebone, London (1827) |
|
Soleri, Paolo |
1919– |
Italian |
Cosanti Foundaion, Scottsdale AZ (1976); Dome House, Arizona (1949) |
|
Stirling, Sir James |
1926–1992 |
English |
House, Isle of Wight (1956); Biennale Bookshop, Venice (1989) |
|
Street, George Edmund |
1824–1881 |
English |
Law Courts, London (1882) |
|
Stuart, James |
1713–1788 |
English |
Infirmary, Greenwich Hospital (1764); Chapel, Greenwich Hospital (1788) |
|
Sullivan, Louis |
1856–1924 |
American |
Guaranty Building, Buffalo (1896); Stock Exchange, Chicago (1894) |
|
Thomson, Alexander |
1817–1875 |
Scottish |
New Campus, University of Glasgow (1850); Egyptian Halls, Glasgow (1871) |
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Vasari, Giogorio |
1511–1574 |
Italian |
Uffizi Palace, Florence (1580) |
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Voysey, Charles F. |
1857–1941 |
English |
Memorial Manor House, Tonbridge (1920) |
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Wagner, Otto |
1841–1918 |
Austrian |
Synagogue, Budapest (1871); Lupus Sanatorium, Vienna (1913) |
|
Warschavick, Gregori |
1896–1972 |
Brazilian |
First Modern House Exhibition, São Paulo (1930); Raul Crespi Beach House (1943) |
|
Webb, Aston |
1879–1930 |
English |
Victoria Azzize Courts, Birmingham (1891); Victoria & Albert Museum London (1909) |
|
Webb, Philip |
1831–1915 |
English |
Standen, Sussex (1892); 19 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (1869) |
|
White, Stanford |
1853–1906 |
American |
Boston Public Library (1888); J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (1907 with McKim, Mead and White) |
|
Wren, Sir Christopher |
1632–1723 |
English |
Royal Hospital, Greenwich (1691); St. Paul’s Cathedral. London (1710) |
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Wright, Frank Lloyd |
1867–1959 |
American |
Robie House, Chicago (1909); Falling Water, Bear Run PA (1936) |
|
Wyatt, James |
1764–1813 |
English |
Lee Priory, Kent (1790); Ashbridge Park, Hertfordshire (1813) |
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Van Vynckt, Randall J., ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. London: St James, 1993.
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