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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
Mimar Sinan (ca. 1490 - 1588) Turkey
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507 - 1573), Italy
Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580), Italy
Juan de Herrera (1530 - 1597), Spain
Inigo Jones (1573 - 1652) England
François Mansart (1598 - 1666), France
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680), Italy

Cathedrale de Brasilia by Oscar Neimeyer.

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
Daniel Burnham (1846 - 1912), US
Antonio Gaudi (1852 – 1926), Spain
Albert Kahn (1869 - 1942), Germany
Adolf Loos (1870 – 1933), Moravia

San Cataldo Cemetery by Aldo Rossi, Modena, Italy.

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
Konstantín Mélnikov (1890 - 1974) Russia
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
Philip Johnson (1906 – 2005), US
Oscar Neimeyer (1907 - ), Brazil.
Felix Candela (1910 - 1997), Spain Mexico
Mario Pani (1911 - 1993), Mexico
Jörn Utzon (1918 - 2008), Denmark

CN Tower by John Andrews, Toronto.

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

CG House by Hafeez Contractor, India.

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 *Renzo Piano (1937 - ) [[Italy]]
 *[[Tadao Ando]] (1941 - ), [[Japan]]
+*[[Thom Mayne]] (1944 - ), [[US]]
+*[[Jean Nouvel]] (1945 - ), [[France]]
 *Hafeez Contractor (1950 - ), [[India]]
 *Santiago Calatrava (1951 - ), [[Spain]]