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World Famous Architects

The Opera Garnier, Paris.

Imhotep Egypt
Callicrates (active fifth century BC), Greek
Mnesicles (active fifth century BC), Greek
Ictinus (active fifth century BC), Greek
Phidias (ca. 480 BC – ca. 430 BC), Greek
Paeonius (active ca. 340 BC to 250 BC), Greek
Demetrios (active ca. 340 BC to 250 BC), Greek
Vitruvius (ca. 80–70 BC - ca. 15 BC), Roman
Vitruoya (active ca. 117 AD to 135 AD), Roman
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1445), Italy
Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472), Italy
Donato Bramante (1444 - 1514), Italy
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italy
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507 - 1573), Italy
Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580), Italy
Juan de Herrera (1530 - 1597), Spain
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680), Italy
Andre Le Notre (1613 – 1700), France
Christopher Wren (1618 - 1723), England
José Benito Churriguera (1665 - 1725), Spain
Robert Adam (1728 - 1792), United Kingdom
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), US
James Hoban (ca. 1758 - 1831), Ireland

Cathedrale de Brasilia by Oscar Neimeyer.

Charles Garnier (1825 - 1898), France
Gustave Eiffel (1832 - 1923), France
Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 – 1886), US
Camillo Sitte (1843 - 1903), Austria
Daniel Burnham (1846 - 1912), US
Antonio Gaudi (1852 – 1926), Spain
Albert Kahn (1869 - 1942), Germany
Adolf Loos (1870 – 1933), Moravia
Eliel Saarinen (1873 - 1950), Finland
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969), Germany
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969), Germany
Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965), Switzerland
Frank Lloyd Wright (1887 - 1959), US
Richard Neutra (1892 - 1970), US
Carlos Raul Villanueva (1900 - 1975), Venezuela
Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 - 1974), US
Luis Barragan (1902 - 1988), Mexico
Victor Gruen (1903 - 1980), Austrian-born, US
Oscar Neimeyer (1907 - ), Brazil.
Felix Candela (1910 - 1997), Spain Mexico
Mario Pani (1911 - 1993), Mexico
Jörn Utzon (1918 - ), Denmark

San Cataldo Cemetery by Aldo Rossi, Modena, Italy.

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 *[[Walter Gropius]] (1883 – 1969), [[Germany]]
 *[[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] (1886 - 1969), [[Germany]]
-*[[Le Corbusier]] (1887 - 1965), [[France]]
+*[[Le Corbusier]] (1887 - 1965), [[Switzerland]]
 *[[Frank Lloyd Wright]] (1887 - 1959), [[US]]
 *Richard Neutra (1892 - 1970), [[US]]