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Famous American Architects
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), an amateur architect.
- Robert Mills (1781 – 1855), the first native born American to become a professional architect.
- 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
Seagram Building, New York, Mies van der Rohe - Philip Johnson.
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