Famous Architects

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
• Mimar Sinan (ca. 1490 - 1588) Turkey
• Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507 - 1573), Italy
• Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574), Italy
• Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580), Italy
• Juan de Herrera (1530 - 1597), Spain
• Inigo Jones (1573 - 1652) England

Cathedrale de Brasilia by Oscar Neimeyer.

• François Mansart (1598 - 1666), France
• Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680), Italy
• Luis Le Vau (1612 - 1670), France
• Andre Le Notre (1613 – 1700), France
• Christopher Wren (1618 - 1723), England
• Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, (1656 - 1723), Austria
• José Benito Churriguera (1665 - 1725), Spain
• Robert Adam (1728 - 1792), United Kingdom
• Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), US
• James Hoban (ca. 1758 - 1831), Ireland
• Charles Garnier (1825 - 1898), France
• Gustave Eiffel (1832 - 1923), France
• Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 – 1886), US
• Camillo Sitte (1843 - 1903), Austria

San Cataldo Cemetery by Aldo Rossi, Modena, Italy.

• Daniel Burnham (1846 - 1912), US
• Antonio Gaudi (1852 – 1926), Spain
• Louis Sullivan (1856 - 1924), US
• Albert Kahn (1869 - 1942), Germany
• Adolf Loos (1870 – 1933), Moravia
• Eliel Saarinen (1873 - 1950), Finland
• Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969), Germany
• Paul Williams (1884 - 1980), US
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969), Germany
• William F. Lamb (1883 - 1952), US
• Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965), Switzerland
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1887 - 1959), US
• Konstantín Mélnikov (1890 - 1974) Russia
• Richard Neutra (1892 - 1970), US
• Albert Irvin Cassell (1895 - 1969), US
• Carlos Raul Villanueva (1900 - 1975), Venezuela

CN Tower by John Andrews, Toronto.

• Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 - 1974), US
• Luis Barragan (1902 - 1988), Mexico
• Victor Gruen (1903 - 1980), Austrian-born, US
• Philip Johnson (1906 – 2005), US
• Oscar Niemeyer (1907 - ), Brazil
• Eero Saarinen (1910 - 1961), US (born in Finland)
• Felix Candela (1910 - 1997), Spain, Mexico
• Mario Pani (1911 - 1993), Mexico
• Kenzo Tange (1913 - 2005), Japan
• Jörn Utzon (1918 - 2008), Denmark

• Pedro Ramírez Vázquez (1919 - ), Mexico
• Gottfried Boehm (1920 - ), Germany
• Abraham Zabludovsky (1924 - 2003), Mexico
• Cesar Pelli (1926 - ), Argentina
• Teodoro González de León (1926 - ), Mexico
• Fumihiko Maki (1928 - ), Japan
• Frank Gehry (1929 - ), Canada US
• Aldo Rossi (1931 - 1997), Italy
• John Andrews (1933 - ), Australia
• Richard Rogers (1933 - ), England
• Cedric Price (1934 - 2003), England

The Hemispheric at the "Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències" in Valencia, Spain, by Santiago Calatrava.

• Richard Meier (1934 - ), US
• Norman Foster (1935 - ), England
• Renzo Piano (1937 - ) Italy
• Tadao Ando (1941 - ), Japan
• Peter Zumthor (1943 - ), Switzerland
• Adrian D. Smith (1944 - ) US
• Thom Mayne (1944 - ), US
• Jean Nouvel (1945 - ), France
• Zaha Hadid (1950 - ), Iraq

• Hafeez Contractor (1950 - ), India
• Santiago Calatrava (1951 - ), Spain
• David Chipperfield (1953 - ), England
• Sheila O'Donnell (1953 - ), Ireland
• John Tuomey (1954 - ), Ireland
• Tom Wright (1957 - ), England

See also

Church of Saint Pierre, France,
Le Corbusier - Jose Oubrerie.

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Torre Mexicana de Aviación by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexico City.

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CG House by Hafeez Contractor, India.