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[[Image:Church of Saint Pierre France..jpg|thumb|right|Church of Saint Pierre, France, <br>Le Corbusier - Jose Oubrerie.]] | [[Image:Church of Saint Pierre France..jpg|thumb|right|Church of Saint Pierre, France, <br>Le Corbusier - Jose Oubrerie.]] | ||
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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
- 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
- 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
- Adrian D. Smith (1944 - ), US
What makes a great architect? Part designer, part engineer, part shrink, the truly great architects must be able to interpret his client's wishes, leaven them with reality and, finally, achieve a vision that stands out as a work of art. [1]
See also
- Architecture
- Architectural Sculpture Gallery
- World treasures
- Painting Galleries
- Famous American artists
- Famous American Architects
- Famous Mexican architects
- Contemporary architecture
External links
Torre Mexicana de Aviación by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexico City.
CG House by Hafeez Contractor, India.
