Architecture

Architects and the spaces they create.

People in Architecture

79 profiles

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Zaha Hadid

Designing buildings with sweeping, fluid forms.

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I. M. Pei

Designing the Louvre Pyramid and sharply geometric modern buildings.

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Le Corbusier

Shaping modern architecture through buildings such as Villa Savoye and the urban design of Chandigarh.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Designing Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum through an architecture shaped by its surroundings.

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Balkrishna Doshi

Designing Indian buildings and housing that connect modern architecture with climate and everyday life.

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Francis Kéré

Designing climate-responsive community buildings and becoming the first African-born Pritzker laureate.

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Antoni Gaudí

Designing the Sagrada Família and transforming Barcelona through nature-inspired architecture.

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Tadao Ando

Creating buildings that use concrete, light and space with unusual restraint.

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Oscar Niemeyer

Designing the sweeping civic buildings of Brasília.

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Hassan Fathy

Designing with local materials and climate in projects such as New Gourna.

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Frank Gehry

Designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and sculptural buildings with unconventional forms.

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Charles Correa

Designing modern Indian buildings around climate, open space and everyday life.

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David Adjaye

Designing major cultural buildings, including Washington’s African American history museum.

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Norman Foster

Designing buildings that make engineering part of their visual identity.

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Kenzō Tange

Designing Hiroshima’s peace memorial complex and Tokyo’s Olympic gymnasiums.

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Toyo Ito

Designing fluid public buildings such as the Sendai Mediatheque.

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Kazuyo Sejima

Co-founding SANAA and designing light-filled museums and public spaces.

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Shigeru Ban

Using paper tubes to build both major buildings and disaster shelters.

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Renzo Piano

Designing the Centre Pompidou, Kansai airport and The Shard.

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Rem Koolhaas

Designing the Seattle Central Library and challenging assumptions about how cities work.

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Álvaro Siza Vieira

Designing buildings that respond closely to their landscapes and everyday surroundings.

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Peter Zumthor

Designing Therme Vals and buildings known for their materials, atmosphere and carefully controlled light.

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Wang Shu

Designing contemporary buildings that reuse materials and respond to Chinese architectural traditions.

Architect

Lu Wenyu

Co-founding Amateur Architecture Studio and reworking traditional materials in contemporary Chinese buildings.

Architect

Riken Yamamoto

Designing buildings that connect private life with shared community space.

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Arata Isozaki

The Pritzker-winning architect whose buildings resisted a single signature style.

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Kengo Kuma

The architect known for layered natural materials and projects including Tokyo’s Japan National Stadium.

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Marina Tabassum

Designing buildings that respond to Bangladesh’s climate, materials and communities.

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Geoffrey Bawa

Shaping tropical modernism through buildings that connect interiors, gardens and landscape.

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Lina Bo Bardi

Designing São Paulo’s suspended art museum and the SESC Pompéia leisure centre.

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Luis Barragán

Creating intensely coloured buildings and gardens that made light, water and silence part of modern architecture.

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Tatiana Bilbao

Designing buildings that connect landscape, community and adaptable housing.

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Jeanne Gang

Designing Chicago skyscrapers and public buildings shaped by nature and social connections.

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Denise Scott Brown

Changing architectural thinking through Learning from Las Vegas and urban research.

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Charlotte Perriand

Creating influential modern furniture and human-centred interiors.

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H. P. Berlage

Helping shape modern Dutch architecture through the Amsterdam Exchange.

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Harry Seidler

Bringing modernist architecture to Australian houses and city buildings.

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Sverre Fehn

Designing museums and pavilions around light, landscape and existing structures.

Architect

Liu Jiakun

Creating buildings rooted in local materials and everyday life.

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Sven Markelius

Shaping Swedish functionalism and Stockholm’s postwar planning.

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John Loughborough Pearson

Designing Gothic Revival churches and cathedrals.

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Designing forceful concrete architecture and public spaces in Brazil.

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Hans Hollein

Designing postmodern buildings including Vienna’s Haas House.

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Fumihiko Maki

Designing modernist buildings and developing ideas of collective urban form.

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Shelley McNamara

Co-founding Grafton Architects and designing major university buildings.

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Rafael Moneo

Designing the National Museum of Roman Art and other civic buildings.

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Berthold Lubetkin

Bringing modernist architecture to British housing and public buildings.

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Glenn Murcutt

Designing Australian buildings in close response to their landscape and climate.

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Friedrich August Stüler

Designing Berlin’s Neues Museum.

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Aldo van Eyck

Designing Amsterdam’s orphanage and advancing human-centred architecture.

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Anthony Salvin

Designing Tudor-style houses and restoring English castles.

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Eduardo Souto de Moura

Designing Braga’s municipal stadium and winning the Pritzker Prize.

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Percy Thomas

Designing Swansea Guildhall and Cardiff’s Temple of Peace.

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Aldo Rossi

Writing The Architecture of the City and designing San Cataldo Cemetery.

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Smiljan Radić Clarke

Designing the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion and winning the Pritzker Prize.

Architect

Jørn Utzon

Designing the Sydney Opera House.

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Yvonne Farrell

Co-founding Grafton Architects and sharing the 2020 Pritzker Prize.

Architect

William Tite

Designing London’s Royal Exchange and early railway stations.

Architect

Charles Barry Jr.

Designing Dulwich College and major London buildings.

Architect

Anne Lacaton

Transforming existing buildings with Lacaton & Vassal.

Architect

Richard Meier

Designing the Getty Center and modernist museums.

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Alfred Waterhouse

Designing London’s Natural History Museum and Manchester Town Hall

Architect

Arthur Blomfield

Victorian church architecture and work at Southwark Cathedral

Architect

George Aitchison

Designing Leighton House in London

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Ivar Tengbom

Designing the Stockholm Concert Hall

Architect

Honoré Daumet

Rebuilding the Château de Chantilly

Architect

David Chipperfield

Museum architecture and the restoration of Berlin’s Neues Museum

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Jean-Philippe Vassal

Transforming existing buildings through the Lacaton & Vassal practice.

Architect

James Stirling

Distinctive university buildings and museum architecture.

Architect

Giles Gilbert Scott

Liverpool Cathedral, monumental public buildings and the red telephone box.

Architect

Charles Barry

The rebuilt Palace of Westminster.

Architect

Richard Rogers

High-tech architecture including the Pompidou Centre and Lloyd’s building.

Architect

Robert Venturi

Questioning modernist simplicity in buildings and architectural theory.

Architect

Ernest George

Victorian houses and an influential architectural practice.

Architect

Herbert Baker

Monumental architecture in South Africa and British imperial settings.

Architect

Gottfried Böhm

Sculptural architecture, including the pilgrimage church at Neviges.

Architect

Alejandro Aravena

Developing incremental housing with Elemental.

Architect

John Dinkeloo

Technical innovation in the buildings of Saarinen and Roche Dinkeloo.

Architect

Matthew Digby Wyatt

Architectural design and documentation of the Great Exhibition.