Famous American Architects

Famous American Architects

Daniel Burnham, Chicago Masonic Temple Building.

• Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
• Alexander Jackson Davis (1803 - 1892)
• William Lebaron Jenney (1832 — 1907), the father of the American skyscraper.
• Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 – 1886)
• Daniel Burnham (1846 - 1912)
• Louis Sullivan (1856 - 1924), the father of the modern skyscraper.
• Cass Gilbert (1859 – 1934)
• Paul Williams (1884 - 1980)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1887 - 1959), Guggenheim Museum and 1140 more buildings.
• Richard Neutra (1892 - 1970)
• Albert Irvin Cassell (1895 - 1969)
• Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 - 1974)
• Victor Gruen (1903 - 1980), Austrian-born.
• Philip Johnson (1906 – 2005), the 1979 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate
• Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990), the 1988 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate
• John Portman (b. 1924)
• Robert Venturi (b. 1925), the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate
• Frank Gehry (b. Canada, 1929), the 1989 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate
• Michael Graves (b. 1934)
• Richard Meier (b. 1934), the 1984 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Thom Mayne (b. 1944), the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.

See also

• Architecture
• Architectural Sculpture Gallery
• World treasures
• Famous American artists
• Famous Mexican architects

External links

• MASTERS
• Famous architects
• The Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Frank Lloyd Wright, America's Most Famous Architect
• Empire State Building Ranks Highest in Poll of America’s Favorite Architecture Designed by Gregory Johnson.