Aaron T. Simmons, most commonly known as A. T. Simmons, was an American architect. He designed 71 Carnegie libraries, numerous courthouses, schools, c…
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Aaron B. Schwarz is an American architect and founder of Plan A, a small firm in New York City. Prior to starting Plan A, Aaron partnered with Bradfor…
Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraveski; June 14, 1924 – April 9, 2003) was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well known j…
Absalom Barrett Hallock was an American architect and politician. He served on the Portland, Oregon City Council multiple times and designed various p…
Adam Reed Tucker (born 1972) is an American artist and architect best known for designing highly detailed architectural models made entirely of Lego b…
Adam Sokol is an American architect and founder of the Adam Sokol Architecture Practice (asap/). Considered one of the leading architects of his gener…
Adam D. Tihany (born: Transylvania in 1948) is a hospitality designer based in New York. He founded the multidisciplinary design firm Tihany Design in…
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influentia…
African-American architects are those in the architectural profession who are African American in the United States. Their work in the more distant pa…
Alan Hayes Davidson (1960–2018) was a British architect. He founded the architectural visualisation studio Hayes Davidson and pioneered architectural …
Lieutenant Colonel Albert Leigh Abbott MC TD FRIBA (1890 – 1952) was an architect based in London.
Alberto Prebisch (February 1, 1899 – October 13, 1970) was a distinguished Argentine architect whose numerous works included private houses, apartment…
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who was recognised internationally for his contributions to architect…
Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Archite…
Alejandro Bustillo (18 March 1889 – 3 November 1982) was an Argentine painter and architect who designed numerous buildings including iconic landmarks…
Alejandro de la Sota may refer to: Alejandro de la Sota (footballer) (1881-unknown), Spanish former footballer, co-founder and president of Athletic B…
Alex Gil (born December 24, 1977) is a New York-based architect, and Principal of SPACECUTTER, which he founded in 2009. Among his notable works are t…
Alexander S. MacLean (born 1947) is an American photographic artist who is best known for his aerial photographs. His photographs have portrayed the h…
Alexander McMillan Welch (1869–1943) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition, who led the New York City firm of Welch, Smith & P…
Alexander Ralston (1771 – January 5, 1827) was a Scottish-American surveyor who was one of two co-architects for the design of the city of Indianapoli…
Alexander Strausz (1829–1905) was a Hungarian-born American brewer, cartographer, architect, mining engineer, industrialist and school superintendent.
Ali Rahim is an architect living in the United States. He is a full professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (Penn…
Alison Barbara Brooks (born 1962) is a Canadian-British architect. She is the founder and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects, based in Lond…
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (Finnish: [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includ…
Amancio Williams (19 February 1913 – 14 October 1989) was an Argentine architect. He is among his country's leading exponents of modern architecture.
Amanda Jane Levete (born 17 November 1955) is a British architect and the principal of AL_A. While she worked as a partner at Future Systems, the comp…
Ambrose J. Russell (October 15, 1857 – March 6, 1938) was an architect in Tacoma, Washington. He was Scottish but born to parents on mission in the Ea…
Andrea Palladio ( pə-LAH-dee-oh; Italian: [anˈdrɛːa palˈlaːdjo]; Venetian: Andrea Paładio; Padova, 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian R…
Andrew Johnson (February 18, 1844 – July 29, 1921) was a Swedish–American architect and contractor He designed 61 documented or attributed buildings i…
Andrew Willatsen (8 October 1876 – 25 July 1974) was an architect chiefly remembered for bringing the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie …
Anna Heringer (born 13 October 1977 in Rosenheim) is an architect known for her approach to sustainable architecture, particularly in the realm of ear…
Anne Lacaton (born 2 August 1955) is a French architect and educator. She runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Jean-Philippe Vassal.…
Annika Charlotta Sörenstam (pronounced [ˈǎnːɪka ˈsœ̂ːrɛnˌstam] ; born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish and American professional golfer regarded as one of…
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( gow-DEE, GOW-dee; Catalan: [ənˈtɔni‿ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer, widely known a…
Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022) was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. H…
Archigram was an avant-garde British architectural group (1961-1974) whose unbuilt projects and media-savvy provocations "spawned the most influential…
The Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) was a firm of English architects, founded in 1939 as the Architects' Cooperative Partnership by recent graduates …
Arthur Mario Acton (1873–1953) was a British architect, art dealer and collector.
Arthur Burnett Benton (April 17, 1858 – September 18, 1927) was an American architect. Benton promoted Mission Revival architecture.
Arthur Evan Jones is an American architect based in Houston, Texas and a 1947 graduate of Rice University. His work with firms he partnered with in Ho…
Augustus Alwin Farnham (20 May 1805 – 2 May 1865) was an architect in Utah and a Mormon missionary. Farnham was born May 20, 1805, in Andover, Massach…
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( PEW-jin; 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swis…
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Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (26 August 1927 – 24 January 2023) was an Indian architect. He is an important figure in Indian architecture and noted for …
Trading Spaces is an hour-long American television reality program that originally aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Hom…
Bartholomew Voorsanger (born March 23, 1937) is an American architect.
Barton Myers (November 6, 1934 – August 11, 2026) was an American architect and president of Barton Myers Associates Inc. in Santa Barbara, California…
The Beezer Brothers were American architects active from the late 19th-century to the Great Depression. They were twins, who practiced together in wes…
Benedetta Tagliabue (born 23 June 1963) is an Italian architect based in Barcelona. Along with Spanish architect Enric Miralles, the pair co-founded E…
Benjamin Howard Marshall (May 5, 1874 – June 19, 1944) was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He is known for his designs of luxury hot…
Benjamin T. Wood is an American architect who designed Shanghai's famous Xintiandi, which means “New Heaven and Earth,” a refined cluster of tradition…
Bernard Christian Wetzel (March 18, 1876 – July 12, 1952), was an American architect in Detroit, Michigan. He worked at various firms before establish…
Bernard Kohn (born 1931) is a French-American architect, educator and urban planner.
Bertram Charles Hill (27 April 1881 - 29 May 1977) was a British-born architect who made his home in Dallas, Texas, and helped design many of the most…
Betsey Olenick Dougherty is an American architect. She is a founding partner and principal of the architecture firm Dougherty in Costa Mesa, Californi…
Bijoy Jain (born 1965) is an Indian architect and Norman R. Foster Visiting professor at Yale University.
Billy Fleming is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner of climate justice. He is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Temple Un…
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːkə ˈpɔnkɒ ˈe̝ŋˀl̩s]; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of …
Blaze Makoid is an American architect. Makoid is the founding partner at BMA Architects, which focuses on private luxury residential projects. He is k…
ROMA Design Group is an interdisciplinary firm of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners based in San Francisco, California, United Stat…
Brad Henry Friedmutter, A.I.A. is an architect and founder of Friedmutter Group, a design, architecture, master planning and interior design firm. Fri…
Brian Healy is an American architect. He maintains studies in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jackson, New Hampshire. He established Brian Healy Archit…
Bruce Slesinger, better known by his stage name Ted, is an American musician and architect who was the first drummer for Dead Kennedys.
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, …
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C. Edward Vosbury was an architect in Binghamton, New York, noted for his design of mansions. Vosbury was a native of Windsor, in Broome County, New Y…
Carey K. Jenkins (died 1987) was an American architect active in the Los Angeles area in the mid-20th century. He was one of few black graduate of the…
Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect and designer. He was influenced by the materials, landscape, and history of Ven…
Carlos Adolfo Ott Buenafama (born October 16, 1946) is a Uruguayan-Canadian architect. He became famous when he won the international design competiti…
Carme Pigem Barceló (born Olot, 8 April 1962) is a Catalan architect, member of the Pritzker Prize-winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes, togethe…
Carme Pinós Desplat (born 1954) is a Spanish architect.
Cedric Price FRIBA (11 September 1934 – 10 August 2003) was an English architect and influential teacher and writer on architecture.
Charles Alfred Broadhead ARIBA (26 July 1880 – 21 May 1962) was an architect mainly working in Rotherham.
Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also kn…
Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, India. Credited with the creation of …
Charles Stevens Dilbeck (1907–1990) was an American architect who worked primarily in Dallas, Texas.
Charles L. Thompson and associates is an architectural group that was established in Arkansas since the late 1800s. It is now known as Cromwell Archit…
Charles Marion Rousseau (1848–1918) was a Kingdom of Belgium-born American architect. He was an early architect in the city of San Francisco, Californ…
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Charles Emil Praeger, Sr. (August 18, 1877 – January 3, 1940) was an American architect from Victoria, Texas. He worked for part of his career in part…
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had m…
Charles Souders Paget (born 1874, New Jersey; died 1933) was an American architect active in Canton, China during the late 19th and early 20th century…
Charles Sumner Schneider (1874 – March 10, 1932) was an American architect active in Ohio. Schneider was born in Cleveland to Rev. William F. and Aman…
Charles Thompson Mathews (March 31, 1863 – January 11, 1934) was an American architect, author and philanthropist. He was also a founder of the Americ…
Charles William Romeyn (died February 5, 1942) was a prominent American architect. In partnership with Henry R. Wynne he designed many buildings in Ne…
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Daniel D. Spani, known as D.D. Spani, was an American architect who practiced in Rock Springs, Wyoming. His work includes Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No.…
Daniel Kirby, FAIA, FAICP is an Orlando, Florida-based architect and urban planner. Originally, from Newark, New Jersey, Kirby is currently a principa…
Daniel Wilt Ormsbee (March 4, 1884 – April 3, 1985) was an American architect. With John Branner and Shirley Baker he submitted a design for the Stanf…
Dan Rockhill is the principal of the Architecture firm Rockhill and Associates and is the JL Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the U…
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may …
Daniel Goldner is a New York City based American architect who, with his architecture firm "Daniel Goldner Associates' (established in 1980), speciali…
Daniel K. Brown is a New Zealand-based American architect and academic. Brown holds the inaugural chair Professor of Design Studio at Victoria Univers…
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish and American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskin…
Daniel Keith Forster (born September 19, 1977) is an American designer, television host, film and television producer, director, professor, and speake…
Sir David Frank Adjaye (born 22 September 1966) is a Ghanaian-British architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including th…
Sir David Alan Chipperfield, , (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985, which grew into a…
David Colleen is an American businessman and architect. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of SapientX since co-founding it in 2016. Previo…
David Erdman is an American architect, and chairperson of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture. He w…
David Kahler (February 14, 1937 – April 14, 2026) was an American architect and photographer who led the Milwaukee-based firm Kahler Slater for the bu…
David Michael Harper is an American architect, business leader and sustainable energy advocate. He is currently the Principal Architect / Executive Vi…
David Jon Madson (October 16, 1963 – c. May 2, 1997) was an American architect and gay rights activist, widely known for being the former boyfriend an…
David Mayernik (born 1960) is an American architect and artist. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Royal Society of Arts. He has r…
David Vogel Uihlein Jr. is an American businessman, heir, and philanthropist.
David Williams was an American architect and community planner. He worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Federal Emergency Relief Administration (F…
Dean Bryant Vollendorf (August 25, 1929 – May 6, 2008) was an American architect specializing in organic architecture with influences from Frank Lloyd…
Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is a South African-American architect, planner, writer and educator. She is known for her cont…
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Emile Weil (January 20, 1878 – January 19, 1945) was an American architect. He studied with New Orleans' artist William Woodward. He is known best for…
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Félix Candela Outeriño (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfeliɣs kanˈdela owteˈɾiɲo]; January 27, 1910 – December 7, 1997) was a Spanish and Mexican architect …
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Harry Fischel (1865–1948) was an American businessman and philanthropist based in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Fischel was one of th…
Harry Seidler (25 June 1923 – 9 March 2006) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernis…
Henry Voss (1843 – ?) was a German-born American architect who was born in Germany and began his architectural practice in that country. He immigrated…
Herbert Kawainui Kāne (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011) was a Hawaiian-American artist and historian. His work was focused largely on the seafaring trad…
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Imhotep (; Ancient Egyptian: ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "(the one who) comes in peace"; fl. late 27th century BC) was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possibl…
Ivenue Love-Stanley, , (born 1951) is an American architect. She co-founded Stanley, Love-Stanley P.C., an Atlanta-based architecture and design firm.…
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Jacob Haish (March 9, 1826 – February 19, 1926) was one of the first inventors of barbed wire. His type of barbed wire was in direct competition with …
James Edwin Forbes FRIBA (1876 - 1955) was an architect primarily based in London from 1905 to 1930 in partnership with John Duncan Tate.
John J. Casbarian is an American architect, currently the Harry K. & Albert K. Smith Professor at Rice University. He is a Fellow at American Academy …
Jon Lloyd Stryker (born c. 1958) is an American architect, philanthropist, and billionaire heir to the Stryker Corporation medical technology company …
Juan Gabriel Moreno is a Colombian born architect. He is president and founder of Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects (JGMA), which operates from Chicago, …
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Eamonn Kevin Roche (June 14, 1922 – March 1, 2019) was an American Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Kevin Roche was the archetypal modernist and "mem…
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Lewis W. Thomas was an architect in Canton, Ohio. His work included the Wood County Courthouse in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He designed the Wood Cou…
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MAD Architects (sometimes referred to as MAD) is a design practice led by founder Ma Yansong, and partners Dang Qun, and Yosuke Hayano.
Mark Cousins (8 October 1947 – 26 September 2020) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, …
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and M…
Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary architectural and design practice based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Nalina Moses is an American architect and author who works in New York City. She has designed retail, residential and institutional architecture proje…
Neil Breen is an American architect, filmmaker and actor. Since 2005, he has made seven feature films in which he acts as director, writer, producer a…
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Rainy Hamilton Jr. (born September 22, 1956) is an American architect. He is the president, owner, principal in charge of architecture and co-founder …
RCR Arquitectes is a Spanish architecture firm consisting of principals and co-founders Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta. The trio were th…
Renzo Piano (Italian: [ˈrɛntso ˈpjaːno]; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Par…
Ricardo Bofill Leví (Catalan: [riˈkaɾðu buˈfiʎ ləˈβi]; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He founded the Talle…
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A w…
Robert Ivy (FAIA) was the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 to 2021.
Robert McKay Fripp (December 16, 1858 – December 16, 1917) was an English-born architect who practised in Canada, the United States, Australia and New…
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Salma Samar Damluji (born 1954) is an Iraqi-British architect, professor and author based between London and Italy. She worked with the Egyptian archi…
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Terry Farrell may refer to: Terry Farrell (actress) (born 1963), American actress and former fashion model Sir Terry Farrell (architect) (1938–2025), …
Thomas Crane Young (February 28, 1858 - March 2, 1934) was an American architect. He was part of the Earnes & Young firm with William S. Eames. He ser…
Thornton MacNess Niven (1806 – 1895) was a Scottish-American architect and master stonecutter who worked primarily in Newburgh, New York, but also in …
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Colonel W.L. Stevens was an architect based in New Orleans, Louisiana. A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. S…
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈadɔlf ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡʁoːpiʊs]; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the …
Walter T. Vahlberg (March 4, 1897 - December 5, 1955) was an architect based in Oklahoma. Several of his works are listed on the National Register of …
Wang Shu (Chinese: 王澍, born 4 November 1963) is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture…
Weldon J. Fulton (1911-1998) was an American architect who designed many buildings in Santa Monica, California, including the city's Camera Obscura ov…
Wellington "Duke" Reiter, FAIA, (born 1957), is an American architect and urban designer, and a Senior Adviser at Arizona State University. From 2008 …
Wendell Harper Lovett (April 2, 1922 – September 18, 2016) was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Love…
Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – January 24, 1943) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who founded, with Charles Delevan Wetmore, Warren and Wetmor…
Wilbur B. Talley was an architect in Florida. He worked in Jacksonville until the death of his wife Nellie and daughter Sarah, who were killed when th…
William A. Stanton, Sr. (July 17, 1870 – August 19, 1948) was an American architect who was active in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
William C. Weeks (February 16, 1856 – March 14, 1938) was an American architect and builder in Wisconsin. He designed several works that are listed on…
William C. Weston (April 28, 1866 – September 19, 1932) was a New Zealand-born American architect. Weston practiced architecture in Birmingham, Alabam…
William H. McLean (1871 – January 10, 1943) was an American architect from Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for the design of public libraries,…
William "Bill" Ming Cheong Lam (1924–2012) was an American architectural lighting designer known for integration of lighting into architecture, and ad…
William Andrews McDonough (born February 20, 1951) is an American architect and academic. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + P…
The Pullman Flatiron Building in downtown Pullman, Washington, in Whitman County, also known as Flatiron Building, was constructed in 1904-05. It face…
William T. Nolan (1887–1969) was a Canadian-born architect who worked in New Orleans, Louisiana. His son Ulisse Nolan also became an architect. He par…
William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He…
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Yann Weymouth (born December 1941) is an American architect and the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum. Early in his career, he served as chief of d…
Yi Ku (Korean: 이구; December 29, 1931 – July 16, 2005) was a Korean prince who was head of the House of Yi from 1970 until 2005. He was a grandson of E…
Yona Friedman (5 June 1923 – 20 February 2020) was a Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He was influential in the late 1950s…
Yung Ho Chang (Chinese: 张永和; pinyin: Zhang Yonghe) is a Chinese-American architect and Professor of MIT Architecture. He was formerly the head of the …
Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won…

