Famous Architects

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
* I. M. Pei (1917 - ), China \- US
* Jörn Utzon (1918 - 2008), Denmark
* Pedro Ramírez Vázquez (1919 - 2013), Mexico
* Gottfried Boehm (1920 - ), Germany
* Abraham Zabludovsky (1924 - 2003), Mexico
* Cesar Pelli (1926 - 2019), 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

The Hemispheric at the "Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències" in Valencia, Spain, by Santiago Calatrava.

* 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
* Daniel Libeskind (1946 - ), US
* 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

Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art by Zaha Hadid

> 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[edit]

Church of Saint Pierre, France,
Le Corbusier - Jose Oubrerie.

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Thomas Cole, The Architect's Dream.

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

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CG House by Hafeez Contractor, India.