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Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

An architect whose work often pursues lightness, permeability, and subtle social choreography through pared-down forms.

Lina Bo Bardi

1914-1992 · Sao Paulo, Brazil

An architect, editor, and curator whose work fused civic generosity, adaptive reuse, and a materially direct architectural language.

Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

A Japanese architect whose work explores openness, fine-grained structural order, and unusually soft boundaries between rooms and landscapes.

Tadao Ando

Born 1941 · Osaka, Japan

A self-taught architect known for elemental concrete volumes, calibrated natural light, and intense spatial sequencing.

Alvaro Siza

Born 1933 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

A Portuguese architect whose buildings reconcile topography, urban memory, and formal restraint with extraordinary precision.

Anne Lacaton

Born 1955 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

A French architect whose work expands housing and public programs through generous space, low-carbon reuse, and freedom of use.

Balkrishna Doshi

1927-2023 · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

A Pritzker-winning architect whose work joined housing, education, climate, and everyday urban life with remarkable social ambition.

Jean-Philippe Vassal

Born 1954 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

An architect whose collaborations with Anne Lacaton push adaptive reuse, winter gardens, and everyday generosity to the center of practice.

Louis Kahn

1901-1974 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

An architect of institutions whose work turned structure, daylight, and served and servant space into a durable civic language.

Peter Zumthor

Born 1943 · Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland

A Swiss architect known for atmospheres of material intensity, silence, and craft, often built through slow tectonic refinement.

Annabelle Selldorf

Born 1960 · New York, New York, United States

Annabelle Selldorf is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), the recipient of the 2016 AIANY Medal of Honor and in 2025 was named one of TIME 100 most influential people. Her pro…

Benedetta Tagliabue

Born 1963 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Benedetta Tagliabue is an Italian architect based in Barcelona. Along with Spanish architect Enric Miralles, the pair co-founded EMBT Architects, an international studio, where she is currently the principal and director. Several prominent projects of the firm include the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh and…

Cesar Pelli

1926-2019 · New Haven, Connecticut, United States

César Pelli was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Three of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the World Financial Center in New York City, and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. The American Institute…

Christian de Portzamparc

Born 1944 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urbanist.

Daniel Libeskind

Born 1946 · New York, New York, United States

Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.

David Chipperfield

Born 1953 · London, England, United Kingdom

Sir David Alan Chipperfield,, is a British architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985, which grew into a global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai, and Santiago de Compostela.

Fumihiko Maki

1928-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95.

Jacques Herzog

Born 1950 · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

A Swiss architect whose work with Herzog & de Meuron rethinks museums, venues, and urban landmarks through material specificity and precise formal transformation.

Jean Nouvel

Born 1945 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for A…

Kengo Kuma

Born 1954 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

A Japanese architect whose work often softens civic and cultural buildings through wood, screens, layered thresholds, and close attention to urban atmosphere.

Kenzo Tange

1913-2005 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, partic…

Kisho Kurokawa

1934-2007 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kisho Kurokawa was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.

Moshe Safdie

Born 1938 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Moshe Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian-American architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He is well known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career.

Norman Foster

Born 1935 · London, England, United Kingdom

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the Unit…

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

1928-2021 · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

A Pritzker-winning Brazilian architect whose work joined heavy structure, civic openness, and urban generosity across museums, squares, and institutions.

Pierre de Meuron

Born 1950 · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

A Swiss architect whose collaborations with Jacques Herzog have shaped major museums, performance venues, and adaptive transformations worldwide.

Rafael Moneo

Born 1937 · Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

José Rafael Moneo Vallés is a Spanish architect. He won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2003, and La Biennale's Golden Lion in 2021.

Rem Koolhaas

Born 1944 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for…

Renzo Piano

Born 1937 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultur…

Ricardo Bofill

1939-2022 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

A Catalan architect whose work ranged from monumental housing experiments to civic and urban ensembles shaped by strong geometry and theatrical color.

Richard Meier

Born 1934 · New York, New York, United States

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museu…

Riken Yamamoto

Born 1945 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Riken Yamamoto is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor.

Santiago Calatrava

Born 1951 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish-Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Spor…

Shigeru Ban

Born 1957 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovati…

Steven Holl

Born 1947 · New York, New York, United States

Steven Holl is a New York–based American architect and watercolorist.

Thom Mayne

Born 1944 · Los Angeles, California, United States

Thom Mayne is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities postgraduate program. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Po…

Toyo Ito

Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and in…

Wang Shu

Born 1963 · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Wang Shu is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. With his practice partner and wife Lu Wenyu, he founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the wor…

Winy Maas

Born 1958 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Wilhelmus "Winy" Maas is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1993 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV.

Zaha Hadid

1950-2016 · London, England, United Kingdom

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architec…

Aldo Rossi

1931-1997 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement.

Alvar Aalto

1898-1976 · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career ran in…

Antoni Gaudi

1852-1926 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his main work, the Sagrada Família church.

Arata Isozaki

1931-2022 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Bjarke Ingels

Born 1974 · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

Carlo Scarpa

1906-1978 · Venice, Veneto, Italy

Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Venetian culture, as well as those of Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and techniques of artistry and craftsmanship into glass and furniture design.

Charles Correa

1930-2015 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Charles Mark Correa was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, India. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials.

Denys Lasdun

1914-2001 · London, England, United Kingdom

Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, was an eminent English architect. Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.

Dominique Perrault

Born 1953 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his…

Eero Saarinen

1910-1961 · Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer. Saarinen's work includes the General Motors Technical Center; the Dulles International Airport Main Terminal; the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center; the Gateway Arch; and the…

Frank Gehry

1929-2025 · Los Angeles, California, United States

Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao…

Frank Lloyd Wright

1867-1959 · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of app…

Frei Otto

1925-2015 · Warmbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Frei Paul Otto was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Gunnar Asplund

1885-1940 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was profe…

Helmut Jahn

1940-2021 · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Helmut Jahn was a German and American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, among others.

I. M. Pei

1917-2019 · New York, New York, United States

Ieoh Ming Pei was a Chinese-American architect.

Jeanne Gang

Born 1964 · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Jeanne Gang is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. She is known for apartment towers, first coming to wide attention with the Aqua Tower, which at the time of its completion was the talle…

Jorn Utzon

1918-2008 · Hellebaek, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Utzon's revised design, which he completed in 1961, was the basis for the landmark, although it was not completed until 1973.

Le Corbusier

1887-1965 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents and acquired French nationality in 1930. He designed bui…

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1886-1969 · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German and American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.

Luis Barragan

1902-1988 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international students and professors of architecture. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety o…

Marcel Breuer

1902-1981 · New York, New York, United States

Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.

Mario Botta

Born 1943 · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. At age fifteen, Botta dropped out of secondary school and apprenticed with the architectural firm of Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano. After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional degree in 196…

Michael Graves

1934-2015 · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysi…

Minoru Yamasaki

1912-1986 · Detroit, Michigan, United States

Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism".

Oscar Niemeyer

1907-2012 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as h…

Peter Eisenman

Born 1932 · New York, New York, United States

Peter David Eisenman is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his high modernist and deconstructive designs, as well as for his authorship of several architectural books. His work has won him several awards, including the Wolf Prize in Arts.

Philip Johnson

1906-2005 · New York, New York, United States

Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown M…

Ricardo Legorreta

1931-2011 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis was a Mexican architect. He was a prolific designer of private houses, public buildings and master plans in Mexico, the United States and some other countries.

Richard Neutra

1892-1970 · Los Angeles, California, United States

Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most notable works include the Kaufmann Desert House, in Palm Springs, California.

Richard Rogers

1933-2021 · London, England, United Kingdom

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was the founder at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership, until June 2020. After Rogers' retirement and death,…

Ben van Berkel

Born 1957 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect. He is the founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio. With his studio he designed, among others, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Moebius House in the Netherlands, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Arnhem Central Station, the Singapore…

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Born 1952 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (Portuguese pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðu ˈsotu ðɨ ˈmoɾɐ]; born 25 July 1952), better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Fernando Távora and Álvaro Si…

Rafael Vinoly

1944-2023 · New York, New York, United States

Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (1 June 1944 – 2 March 2023) was an Uruguayan-born architect based in New York. He was the principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects, which he founded in 1983. The firm has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, London, Manchester, Abu Dhabi, and Buenos Aires. Viñoly designed landmark buildings interna…

Toshiko Mori

Born 1951 · New York, New York, United States

Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to recei…

Hiroshi Naito

Born 1950 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Naito is an architect from Japan, known for his modern-style buildings. His work includes projects in other countries. He is the principal architect at Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates in Tokyo. He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and President of Tama Art University

Itsuko Hasegawa

Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Itsuko Hasegawa is a Japanese architect.

Kiyonori Kikutake

1928-2011 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyonori Kikutake was a prominent Japanese architect known as one of the founders of the Japanese Metabolist group. He was also the tutor and employer of several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.

Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…

Togo Murano

1891-1984 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Tōgo Murano was a Japanese architect. Although his formative years were between 1910 and 1930, he remained active in design throughout his life and at the time of his death was responsible for over three hundred completed projects.

Yoshio Taniguchi

1937-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Taniguchi was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous ph…

Alphonse Laverrière

1872-1954 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Alphonse Laverrière was a Swiss architect.

Carl Ahasver von Sinner

1754-1821 · Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Carl Ahasver von Sinner was a Bernese architect of the Louis XVI period.

Christian Menn

1927-2018 · Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland

Christian Menn was a renowned Swiss civil engineer and bridge designer. He was involved in the construction of around 100 bridges worldwide, but the focus of his work was in eastern Switzerland, especially in canton Graubünden. He continued the tradition of and had a decisive influence on Swiss bridge building. The te…

Eugène Jost

1865-1946 · Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland

Eugène Jost was a Swiss architect of the Belle Époque.

Ferdinand Stadler

1813-1870 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

(Caspar) Ferdinand Stadler was a Swiss architect of the generation before Gottfried Semper. He was born and died in Zurich.

Hans Auer

1847-1906 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Hans Wilhelm Auer was a Swiss-Austrian architect best known for his design of the Swiss Bundeshaus (1894–1902) in Bern.

Hans Hilfiker

1901-1993 · Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Hans Hilfiker was a Swiss engineer and designer. In 1944, working for the Swiss Federal Railways, he designed the Swiss railway clock, which became an international icon. The SBB clock was not the only contribution by Hilfiker to modern living. He developed the concept of the fitted kitchen and was responsible for the…

Jakob Friedrich Wanner

1830-1903 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Jakob Friedrich Wanner was a German-born Swiss architect who was primarily active in Zürich, Switzerland. Among his notable works are the headquarters of Credit Suisse at Paradeplatz and Zurich Main Station.

Karl Moser

1860-1936 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Karl Moser was an architect from Switzerland.

Robert Maillart

1872-1940 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) brid…

Andrea Palladio

1508-1580 · Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture. While he designed churches and palaces, he was best known f…

Donato Bramante

1443-1514 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Donato Bramante, born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect and painter. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of the design executed by Michelangelo. His T…

Filippo Brunelleschi

1377-1446 · Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi, commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista Alberti, was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith, and sculptor. He is considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture. He is recognized as the first modern engineer, planner,…

Adamo Boari

1863-1928 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Adamo Boari was an Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco civil engineer and architect, he had a very active career in Mexico and he is known for the construction of notable Historicist architectural works in this country.

Alberto Kalach

Born 1960 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Alberto Kalach is a Mexican architect.

Augusto H. Alvarez

1914-1995 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Augusto Harold Álvarez García was a Mexican Modernist architect.

Claude Batley

1879-1956 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Claude Batley F.R.I.B.A., F.I.A.A., was an English architect who as practitioner, teacher and President of the Indian Institute of Architects from 1921 to 1923, played an influential role in development of modern architecture in India in the first half of the 20th century.

Edwin Lutyens

1869-1944 · London, England, United Kingdom

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely…

Francisco J. Serrano

1900-1982 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Francisco J. Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa was a Mexican civil engineer and architect.

Frederick William Stevens

1847-1900 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Frederick William Stevens was an English architectural engineer who worked for the British colonial government in India. Stevens' most notable design was the railway station Victoria Terminus in Bombay.

George Wittet

1878-1926 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

George Wittet (1878–1926) was a British architect who worked in the British Raj. Wittet mostly worked in the present-day city of Mumbai.

Hafeez Contractor

Born 1950 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hafeez Sorab Contractor is an Indian architect. He has designed many skyscrapers in India, primarily in the city of Mumbai. As of 2019, he is the architect of the three tallest buildings in India – The 42 in Kolkata, and the twin towers of The Imperial in Mumbai. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in January 2016 by the…

Henry Medd

1892-1977 · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd OBE FRIBA, was a British-born architect, whose career was made in India. He is most known for being in the team of architects, team led by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, which designed the new capital of India, New Delhi (1911–1931). Post inauguration of New Delhi, when most of architect…

Herbert Baker

1862-1946 · London, England, United Kingdom

Sir Herbert Baker, Hon. DArch. Hon DCL was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and the designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

Joseph Allen Stein

1912-2001 · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Joseph Stein was an American architect and a major figure in the establishment of a regional modern architecture in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1940s and 1950s during the early days of the environmental design movement. In 1952, he moved to India and in 1955 was tasked with the planning of Durgapur in West Benga…

Juan O'Gorman

1905-1982 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.

Manuel Tolsa

1757-1816 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Manuel Vicente Tolsá Sarrión was a prolific Neoclassical architect and sculptor in Spain and New Spain. He served as the first director of the Academy of San Carlos.

Mario Pani

1911-1993 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Mario Pani Darqui was a Mexican architect and urbanist. He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle, and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with emblematic buildings, such as the main campus of the UNAM, the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, the Normal School…

Michel Rojkind

Born 1969 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Michel Rojkind is the founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and according to Forbes Life a representative of a Mexican generation of architects transforming the country. His office was recognized by Architectural Record in 2005 as one of the best ten Design Vanguard firms.

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez

1919-2013 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a Mexican architect. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer.

Refugio Reyes Rivas

1862-1943 · Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico

José Refugio Reyes Rivas was a Mexican architect, author of some of the most representative buildings of the city of Aguascalientes, where his work is considered part of the historical and architectural heritage. Reyes did not have professional architectural studies, so he is called "empirical architect". In 1985 he r…

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon

1926-2016 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Teodoro González de León was a Mexican architect.

William Emerson

1843-1924 · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sir William Emerson was a British architect, who was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 1899 to 1902, and worked extensively in India. He was the original architect chosen to build Liverpool Cathedral.

Alvaro Siza Vieira

Born 1933 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.

Cottinelli Telmo

1897-1948 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo (1897–1948) was a Portuguese architect, filmmaker, poet, artist, and musician. He believed that architecture was not based on a single discipline, but on the unification of various artistic disciplines. He was initially an adherent of modernism in architecture but later followed the neocla…

Cyrillus Johansson

1884-1959 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Cyrillus Johansson was a Swedish architect.

Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander

1816-1881 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander was a Swedish architect and artist.

Goncalo Byrne

Born 1941 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Gonçalo Byrne, GCIH is a Portuguese architect.

Ivar Tengbom

1878-1968 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Ivar Justus Tengbom was a Swedish architect and one of the best-known representatives of the Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s.

Jose Marques da Silva

1869-1947 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

José Marques da Silva was a Portuguese architect and educator.

Kim Swoo-geun

1931-1986 · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Kim Swoo Geun was a prominent South Korean architect, educator, publisher and patron of artists. Along with architect Kim Chung-up (김중업), he is recognised as a significant contributor in the history of Korean architecture. With his support for diverse art genres of Korean culture, he was referred to as Lorenzo de Medi…

Maria Keil

1914-2012 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Maria Keil was a Portuguese visual artist. She was part of the second generation of Portuguese modernist painters and produced a vast body of diverse work that included painting, drawing and illustration, azulejo tiles, graphic and furniture design, tapestry and scenography. Particularly noteworthy was her activity as…

Minsuk Cho

Born 1966 · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Minsuk Cho is a South Korean architect.

Peter Celsing

1920-1974 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Peter Elof Herman Torsten Folke von Celsing was a Swedish modernist architect.

Porfirio Pardal Monteiro

1897-1957 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Porfírio Pardal Monteiro (1897–1957) was a Portuguese architect and university professor, considered one of the most important architects of the first half of the 20th century in Portugal. Along with other architects, who included Cottinelli Telmo, Carlos Ramos, Luís Cristino da Silva, Cassiano Branco, and Jorge Segur…

Ralph Erskine

1914-2005 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Ralph Erskine ARIBA was a British architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.

Regent Alfred John Bidwell

1869-1918 · Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Regent Alfred John Bidwell, also known as R. A. J. Bidwell, was an English-born architect noted for his colonial era buildings in Singapore. His best-known works include the Raffles Hotel and the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall in Singapore and Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur.

Ryu Choon-soo

Born 1946 · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Ryu Choon-soo is a prominent South Korean architect, educator, and artist. He worked under Kim Swoo-Geun who was a pioneer of Korean modern architecture. He designed many projects both in South Korea and abroad, including the Seoul World Cup Stadium and the 868 Towers Apartments in Haikou. Currently, he is the CEO at…

Samoo Architects & Engineers

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Samoo Architects & Engineers is a multinational company headquartered in Seoul which provides architecture and engineering design related services such as architectural design, engineering, interior design, urban design, sustainable design, construction management, and building information modelling.

Sigurd Lewerentz

1885-1975 · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Sigurd Lewerentz was a Swedish architect.

Swan & Maclaren Group

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Swan & Maclaren Architects is a Singaporean architectural and industrial design firm. Among the oldest architectural firms in the nation, it was formerly known as Swan & Maclaren and Swan & Lermit. The practice was a leading architectural force during the early 20th century, particularly when Singapore was a crown col…

Tomas Taveira

Born 1938 · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Tomás Cardoso Taveira is a Portuguese architect and former university teacher. He has a degree in architecture from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL), later incorporated into the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), and owns a post-graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of…

Arthur Erickson

1924-2009 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Arthur Charles Erickson was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied at the University of British Columbia and, in 1950, received his B.Arch. (Honours) from McGill University. He is known as one of Canada's most influential architects and was the only Canadian architect to win the American Institute of Archi…

Douglas Cardinal

Born 1934 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Douglas Joseph Cardinal is a Canadian architect based in Ottawa, Ontario. His architecture is influenced by his Indigenous heritage, as well as European Expressionist architecture. Cardinal designed the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Eberhard Zeidler

1926-2022 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler, was a German-Canadian architect. He designed iconic structures and landmarks in Canada and internationally, most notably in Toronto. These included Ontario Place, the Toronto Eaton Centre and the North York Performing Arts Centre, as well as redevelopments of Queen's Quay Terminal and the Gl…

Raymond Moriyama

1929-2023 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raymond Junichi Moriyama was a Canadian architect.

Kohn Pedersen Fox

New York, New York, United States

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architectural firm based in New York City that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services. They engineer different projects including civic and cultural spaces, commercial office buildings, transportation facilities, residential and hospi…

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Chicago, Illinois, United States

SOM, an initialism of its original name Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm with headquarters in Chicago. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings. In 1939, they were joined by engineer John O. Merrill. The firm opened its second offic…

Paul Andreu

1938-2018 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Paul Andreu was a French architect, known for his designs of multiple airports such as Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, and multiple prestigious projects in China, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

Antonio Barluzzi

1884-1960 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Antonio Barluzzi was an Italian architect who became known as the "Architect of the Holy Land" by creating, among many others, the pilgrimage churches at the Garden of Gethsemane, on Mount Tabor, on the Mount of Beatitudes, and at the tomb of Lazarus in Bethany. He also restored, giving them a new outlook, several chu…

Yaakov Rechter

1924-2001 · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yaakov Rechter was an Israeli architect and an Israel Prize recipient. Rechter was influenced by the works of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, and one of several Israeli architects who designed cubist buildings in Tel Aviv with flat roofs, taking their inspiration from architecture in North Africa.

Yehuda Magidovitch

1886-1961 · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yehuda Magidovitch was one of the most prolific Israeli architects. Among his prominent works are the Galei Aviv Casino, a café-restaurant, the great synagogue of Tel Aviv, the former Soviet Embassy in Tel Aviv and the Cinema Esther, both in Tel Aviv.

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

1656-1723 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His influential book A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (1721) was one of the first and most popular comp…

Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt

1668-1745 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt was an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches and whose work had a profound influence on the architecture of the Habsburg Empire in the eighteenth century. After studying in Rome under Carlo Fontana, he constructed fortresses for Prince…

Otto Wagner

1841-1918 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architect…