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Miscellaneous Architects
A collection of European and American architects.
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Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (born 1851, died 1942)
English architect and furniture designer.
- Started the Arts and Crafts movement in England
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Peter Behrens (born 1868, died 1940)
German architect and designer.
- Known for his industrial designs
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Henry van de Velde (born 1863, died 1957)
Belgian architect.
- Known for helping develop the Art Nouveau style
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Louis Henri Sullivan (born 1856, died 1924)
American architect.
- Designed the Chicago Auditorium
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Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (Le Corbusier) (born 1887, died 1965)
Swiss architect and writer.
- Known for his planned cities and his use of rough-cast concrete
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Filippo Brunelleschi (born 1377, died 1446)
Italian Renaissance architect.
- Built the dome of the Florence Cathedral, one of the engineering marvels of the early Renaissance
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Leone Battista Alberti (born 1404, died 1472)
Italian Renaissance architect.
- Designed the Cathedral of Sante Andrea at Mantua
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Donato Bramante (born 1444, died 1514)
Italian Renaissance architect.
- Designed the Tempietto in Rome
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Andrea Palladio (born 1518, died 1580)
Italian Mannerist architect.
- Designed the Villa Rotonda in Venice
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Francesco Borromini (born 1599, died 1667)
Italian Baroque architect.
- Designed the facade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome
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Christopher Wren (born 1632, died 1732)
English Baroque architect.
- Designed St. Paul''s Cathedral in London
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Antonio Gaudà (born 1852, died 1926)
Catalan architect.
- Known for the many buildings he designed in Barcelona
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Joseph Paxton (born 1801, died 1865)
English architect.
- Designed the Crystal Palace in London
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Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1867, died 1959)
American architect known for his influential ''Prairie style'' designs.
- Designed New York City''s Guggenheim Museum
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Eero Saarinen (born 1910, died 1961)
Finnish-born American architect and furniture designer.
- Designed Dulles International Airport (near Washington, D.C.)
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Minoru Yamasaki (born 1912, died 1986)
American architect.
- Designed the World Trade Center in New York City
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Affonso Reidy (born 1909, died 1964)
Brazilian architect.
- Designed the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro
Miscellaneous Architects
A collection of European and American architects.
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Louise Blanchard Bethune (born 1856, died 1913)
The first American woman known to have made her living as an architect.
- First female member of the American Institute of Architects
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Jane Drew (born 1911)
British architect.
- One of the foremost experts on designing buildings for the tropics
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Julia Morgan (born 1872, died 1957)
American architect.
- Built Hearst''s Castle at San Simeon, California
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Alison Smithson (born 1928, died 1993)
English architect.
- With her husband, Peter, designed the Hunstanton Secondary School in Norfolk, considered the first building designed in the Brutalist style
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Hanna Adamczewka-Wejchert (born 1920)
Polish architect and urban planner.
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Gaetana Aulenti (born 1927)
Italian architect.
- Did a highly acclaimed re-design of Paris'' Musee d''Orsay, 1980-86
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Norma Merrick Sklarek (born 1928)
First female, African-American licensed architect, and first female fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
- Designed the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo
