Famous American Architects

Daniel Burnham, Chicago Masonic Temple Building.

Outstanding American architects have literally shaped the form of the United States throughout modern era.

• Peter Harrison (1716-1775), an amateur architect, the first nearly professional architect in the colonies.
• Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), an amateur architect.
• Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825), a French-born architect; design the new capital of the United States, (Federal City).
• James Hoban (ca. 1758 - 1831), The White House.
• William Thornton (1759 - 1828), an amateur architect; basic design of the United States Capitol.
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), Federal style; Massachusetts State House, and completing the U. S. Capitol.
• Robert Mills (1781 – 1855), the first native born American to become a professional architect.
• Alexander Jackson Davis (1803 - 1892), Greek Doric style; Connecticut State Capitol, Ohio State Capitol.
• Thomas U. Walter (1804 - 1887), north and south wings and the central dome of the U. S. Capitol.
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), New York City's Central Park, Chicago's downtown and Columbian Exposition plans.
• Richard Morris Hunt (1827 – 1895), pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• 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, ubiquitous Chicago genius.
• Cass Gilbert (1859 – 1934), Supreme Court Building.
• Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969), founder of the Bauhaus and master of modern architecture; Pan Am Building.
• William Van Alen (1883 – 1954), The Chrysler Building.
• William F. Lamb (1883 - 1952), The Empire State Building.
• Paul Williams (1884 - 1980)

Frank L. Wright, Guggenheim Museum, interior.

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969), pioneer of modern architecture; Seagram Building.
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1887 - 1959), Guggenheim Museum and 1140 more buildings; protégé of Louis Sullivan.
• 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
• David Magie Childs (b. 1941), the architect of One World Trade Center, (completed 2013).
• Thom Mayne (b. 1944), the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
• Adrian D. Smith (1944 - ) (Burj Khalifa, Dubai.)

See also[edit]

Seagram Building, New York, Mies van der Rohe - Philip Johnson.

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Supreme Court Building by Cass Gilbert.

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