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The following is a 'list of famous architects' - well known individuals with a large body of published work.

★ (''Note: '' Please write a brief article when adding a new name to the list)
''See also: '' List of architecture firms and List of emerging architects.

Contents

Mythological/Fictional Architects

Early architects

13th century architects

14th century architects

15th century architects

16th century architects

17th century architects

18th century architects

19th century architects

20th century architects

21st century architects

Lists of architects by country

References

Mythological/Fictional Architects

★ Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks' character in Sleepless in Seattle)

★ Mike Brady (father of The Brady Bunch)

★ Daedalus

★ "David" ("deliberately-noncontextual" boyfriend/architect in Hannah and Her Sisters)

★ Phillip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes' character in Tempest (1982 film))

★ Bloody Stupid Johnson

★ Nimrod

★ Wilbur Post (owner of Mr. Ed)

★ Howard Roark

★ Ivo Shandor

★ Vivasvat

★ Quintus Teal, built a house shaped like a tesseract, in "—And He Built a Crooked House—" by Robert A. Heinlein.

★ Adam Sandler's character in "Click" worked on building models in his basement.

★ Michael Keaton's character in "White Noise" worked as an architect who heard noises.

★ Matthew Perry's character in "Fools Rush In" was a hot-shot Ford Mustang-renting NY architect who oversaw construction of a building in Las Vegas while wearing a hard hat.

★ Jason Alexander's character "Costanza" in "Seinfeld" always wanted to pretend to be an architect. Jerry remarked: "I don't know; I don't see architecture coming from you."

Early architects

★ Marcus Agrippa

★ Anthemius of Tralles

★ Imhotep

★ Iktinos

★ Isidore of Miletus

★ Kallikrates

★ Lu Ban (鲁班)

★ Mnesicles

★ Abbot Suger

★ Senemut

★ Vitruvius

★ Yu Hao

13th century architects

★ Renaud de Cormont

★ Thomas de Cormont

★ Villard de Honnecourt

★ Jean de Loup

★ Robert de Luzarches

★ Jean d'Orbais

★ Gaucher de Reims

★ Bernard de Soisons

14th century architects

★ Cristoforo da Bolzano

★ Jacopo Celega

★ Pier Paolo Celega

★ Frà Giovanni degli Eremitani

★ Giotto di Bondone

★ Peter Parler

15th century architects

★ Leon Battista Alberti

★ Donato Bramante

★ Filippo Brunelleschi

★ Leonardo da Vinci

★ Annibale Maggi detto ''Da Bassano''

★ Michelozzo Michelozzi

★ Jean Texier

★ Jacob van Thienen

16th century architects

★ Galeazzo Alessi

★ Bartolomeo Ammanati

★ Michelangelo Buonarroti

★ Juan de Herrera

★ Philibert de l'Orme

★ Hans Hendrik van Paesschen

★ Andrea Palladio

★ Antonio da Sangallo

★ Michele Sammicheli

★ Raffaello Santi (Raphael)

★ Vincenzo Scamozzi

★ Koca Mimar Sinan Agha

★ Giorgio Vasari

★ Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

17th century architects

★ Gian Lorenzo Bernini

★ Francesco Borromini

★ Pietro da Cortona

★ Guarino Guarini

★ Inigo Jones

★ Louis le Vau

★ Baldassarre Longhena

★ Carlo Maderno

★ Nicodemus Tessin the Younger

★ Carlo Rainaldi

★ John Webb

★ Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham

★ Christopher Wren

18th century architects

A - L ★ Robert Adam ★ William Adam ★ Cosmas Damian Asam ★ Egid Quirin Asam ★ James Bloodworth ★ Étienne-Louis Boullée ★ Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart ★ William Buckland (Architect) ★ Colen Campbell ★ John Carr of York ★ Richard Cassels ★ William Chambers ★ François de Cuvilliés ★ Christoph Dientzenhofer ★ Kilian Ignaz Dienzenhofer ★ Laurent-Benoît Dewez ★ Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach ★ Johann Michael Fischer ★ Pierre François Léonard Fontaine ★ Gerolamo Frigimelica ★ Ange-Jacques Gabriel ★ John Gwynn ★ Peter Harrison ★ Nicholas Hawksmoor ★ Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt ★ James Hoban ★ Thomas Jefferson ★ Richard Jupp ★ Filippo Juvarra ★ William Kent ★ Benjamin Latrobe ★ Giacomo Leoni ★ Johann Friedrich Ludwig

M - Z ★ Jules Hardouin Mansart ★ Giorgio Massari ★ Josef Munggenast ★ Robert Mylne ★ Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin ★ Balthasar Neumann ★ Giovanni Paolo Pannini ★ Edward Lovett Pearce ★ Charles Percier ★ Giuseppe Piermarini ★ Jakob Prandtauer ★ Francesco Maria Preti ★ Johann Michael Prunner ★ Bartolomeo Rastrelli ★ Charles Ribart ★ Antonio Rinaldi ★ Thomas Sandby ★ Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel (1677-1723) ★ Michael Searles ★ Jacques-Germain Soufflot ★ William Thornton ★ Domenico Trezzini ★ John Vanbrugh ★ Luigi Vanvitelli ★ Bernardo Vittone ★ John Wood I & II ★ Giacomo Quarenghi ★ Dominikus Zimmermann ★ Johann Baptist Zimmermann

19th century architects

A - L ★ Dankmar Adler ★ Frank Shaver Allen ★ Henry Austin ★ Alphonse Balat ★ Sir Charles Barry ★ Charles Barry (junior) ★ Edward Middleton Barry ★ Frederic Auguste Bartholdi ★ Carlo Bassi ★ Asher Benjamin ★ Hendrik Beyaert ★ Edward Blore ★ Ignatius Bonomi ★ Joseph Bonomi the Elder ★ Carl Ludvig Engel ★ Gridley James Fox Bryant ★ David Bryce ★ Charles Bulfinch ★ William Burges ★ William Burn ★ Decimus Burton ★ J. Cleaveland Cady ★ Sir Basil Champneys ★ Edward Clark ★ Adolf Cluss ★ Lewis Cubitt ★ Thomas Cubitt ★ Pierre Cuypers ★ Alexander Jackson Davis ★ George Devey ★ John Dobson ★ Thomas Leverton Donaldson ★ Kolyu Ficheto ★ Watson Fothergill ★ Thomas Fuller ★ Frank Furness ★ Charles Garnier ★ Edward William Godwin ★ Philip Hardwick ★ Philip Charles Hardwick ★ William Alexander Harvey ★ Thomas Hastings ★ Victor Horta ★ William Hosking FSA ★ Richard Hunt ★ Giuseppe Jappelli ★ William LeBaron Jenney ★ Sir Horace Jones ★ Leo von Klenze ★ Henri Labrouste ★ Barthelemy Lafon ★ Benjamin Henry Latrobe

M - Z ★ Charles Follen McKim ★ Samuel McIntire ★ Enrico Marconi ★ Leandro Marconi ★ Oskar Marmorek ★ Frederick Marrable ★ Robert Mills ★ Josef Mocker ★ Auguste de Montferrand ★ William Morris ★ Alfred B. Mullett (1834-1890) ★ John Nash ★ Joseph Maria Olbrich ★ Frederick Law Olmsted ★ Alexander Parris ★ Joseph Paxton ★ John Wornham Penfold (1828-1909) ★ Sir James Pennethorne ★ Albert Pretzinger ★ A. W. N. Pugin ★ James Renwick, Jr. ★ Henry Hobson Richardson ★ Antonio Rivas Mercado (1853-1927) ★ Robert S. Roeschlaub (1843-1923) ★ Isaiah Rogers (1834-1890) ★ John Root ★ Carlo Rossi (1775-1849) ★ Archimedes Russell (1840-1915) ★ George Gilbert Scott ★ George Gilbert Scott Junior ★ Karl Friedrich Schinkel ★ Gottfried Semper ★ Richard Norman Shaw ★ Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1848-1913) ★ John Soane ★ Vasily P. Stasov ★ George Edmund Street ★ William Strickland ★ Louis Sullivan ★ Thomas Alexander Tefft (1826-1859) ★ Samuel Sanders Teulon ★ Constantine Andreyevich Ton ★ Ithiel Town ★ Silvanus Trevail ★ William Tubby ★ Richard Upjohn ★ Calvert Vaux ★ Eugene Viollet-le-Duc ★ Otto Wagner ★ Thomas U. Walter ★ Alfred Waterhouse ★ Stanford White ★ William Wilkins ★ Thomas Worthington ★ Thomas Henry Wyatt ★ Ammi B. Young

20th century architects

A - L ★ Alvar Aalto ★ Max Abramovitz (1908-2004) ★ David Adler ★ Charles N. Agree (1897-1982) Detroit architect ★ Christopher Alexander ★ Tadao Ando ★ Paul Andreu ★ Walter W. Ahlschlager ★ Raul de Armas ★ Hisham N. Ashkouri ★ Gunnar Asplund ★ Edward Larrabee Barnes ★ Vani Bahl ★ Luis Barragan ★ Welton Becket ★ Adolf Behne ★ Peter Behrens ★ Henry P. Beiler ★ Pietro Belluschi ★ Hendrik Petrus Berlage ★ Gottfried Boehm ★ Ricardo Bofill ★ Oriol Bohigas Catalan architect of the MBM group ★ Mario Botta ★ Claude Fayette Bragdon ★ Marcel Breuer ★ Gordon Bunshaft ★ John Burgee ★ Daniel Burnham ★ Santiago Calatrava ★ Peter Calthorpe ★ Kevin Cantley ★ Sir Hugh Casson ★ James Walter Chapman-Taylor ★ Serge Chermayeff ★ David Chipperfield ★ Josep Antoni Coderch - architect in Barcelona ★ Mary Colter ★ Peter Cook ★ Jerry Cooper ★ Le Corbusier ★ Ernest Cormier ★ Laurie Baker ★ Charles Correa ★ Lúcio Costa ★ Carlos Nemer ★ Ralph Adams Cram ★ Charles Howard Crane (1885-1952) theater architect ★ Kirtland Cutter ★ Justus Dahinden ★ Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco ★ Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps ★ Filipe Oliveira Dias ★ Theo van Doesburg ★ Andrés Duany ★ Max Dudler - architect in Berlin ★ Willem Marinus Dudok ★ Arthur Dyson (b. 1940) San Francisco architect ★ Charles Eames ★ Ray Eames ★ John Eberson - theater architect ★ Peter Eisenman ★ Arthur Erickson ★ Aldo van Eyck ★ Hassan Fathy ★ Sverre Fehn ★ Hermann Finsterlin ★ Theodor Fischer ★ Harold H. Fisher church architect ★ O'Neil Ford ★ Norman Foster ★ Yona Friedman - French architect ★ Buckminster Fuller ★ Ignazio Gardella ★ Antoni Gaudí ★ Frank Gehry ★ Haralamb H. Georgescu ★ Heydar Ghiai ★ Cass Gilbert ★ Romaldo Giurgola ★ Hansjörg Göritz ★ Bruce Goff ★ Ernő Goldfinger ★ Bertram Goodhue ★ Michael Graves ★ Greene and Greene ★ Walter Burley Griffin ★ Nicholas Grimshaw ★ Walter Gropius ★ Victor Gruen ★ Hugo Häring ★ Wallace Harrison ★ Francis R. Heakes ★ John Hejduk ★ Coop Himmelb(l)au ★ Charles Holden ★ Hans Hollein ★ Raymond Hood ★ Victor Horta ★ A. R. Hye ★ Friedensreich Hundertwasser ★ Arata Isozaki ★ Arne Jacobsen ★ Hugh Newell Jacobsen ★ Helmut Jahn ★ Pierre Jeanneret ★ Jon Jerde ★ Philip Johnson ★ Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. (1859-1936) ★ Josep Maria Jujol ★ Albert Kahn ★ Louis Kahn ★ Louis Kamper (1861-1953) Detroit architect ★ Jan Kaplický ★ Oskar Kaufmann ★ Raymond M. Kennedy ★ Edward Killingsworth ★ Michel de Klerk ★ Ralph Knott ★ Austin Eldon Knowlton ★ Hans Kollhoff - German architect ★ Rem Koolhaas ★ Piet Kramer ★ Leon Krier ★ Kisho Kurokawa ★ Edgar-Johan Kuusik ★ Ivan Sergei Kuznetsov - Russian architect ★ Thomas W. Lamb ★ M. A. Lang ★ G. Albert Lansburgh ★ Sir Denys Lasdun ★ John Lautner ★ Jerry Lee ★ Ricardo Legorreta ★ Firmin Lepage ★ William Lescaze ★ Jan Letzel ★ Amanda Levete - Future Systems ★ Sigurd Lewerentz ★ Sicheng Liang (梁思成) ★ Daniel Libeskind ★ Maya Lin ★ El Lissitzky ★ Gordon W. Lloyd (1832-1905) Detroit architect ★ Elmar Lohk ★ Adolf Loos ★ Hans Luckhardt ★ Wassili Luckhardt ★ Owen Luder ★ Edwin Lutyens

M - Z ★ George Washington Maher ★ Philip Maher ★ Fumihiko Maki ★ Charles Rennie Mackintosh ★ Imre Makovecz ★ Robert Mallet-Stevens ★ George D. Mason ★ Bernard Maybeck ★ Wayne McAllister ★ Duncan McDuffie ★ Raymond McGrath ★ McKim, Mead and White ★ Roy Mason ★ Richard Meier ★ Konstantin Melnikov ★ Erich Mendelsohn ★ Henry Mercer ★ Johan van der Mey ★ Hannes Meyer ★ Barton Meyers ★ Giovanni Michelucci ★ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ★ Vlado Milunić ★ Enric Miralles ★ Samuel Mockbee ★ Rafael Moneo ★ Roger Montgomery ★ Arthur Cotton Moore ★ Charles Willard Moore ★ Lester S. Moore ★ Julia Morgan ★ Raymond Moriyama ★ Eric Owen Moss ★ Haji-Baba Moukhtarov (1924-1994)Baku, Azerbaijan ★ Glenn Murcutt ★ Robert Natus ★ Richard Neutra ★ Oscar Niemeyer (b1907 ) ★ Oscar Nitzchke ★ Percy Erskine Nobbs ★ Jean Nouvel ★ A. G. Odell Jr. ★ Frei Otto ★ John Pawson ★ J.J.P. Oud ★ Arthur Peabody ★ I.M. Pei(贝聿明) ★ César Pelli ★ Frits Peutz ★ Renzo Piano ★ Stjepan Planić ★ Jože Plečnik ★ Hans Poelzig ★ James Polshek ★ Gio Ponti ★ John Russell Pope ★ John Portman ★ Christian de Portzamparc ★ George B. Post New York hotel architect ★ Alain Provost ★ Freeman A. Pretzinger ★ Ralph Rapson ★ Rip Rapson ★ C. W. Rapp theater architect ★ George L. Rapp theater architect ★ Steen Eiler Rasmussen ★ Sir Charles Herbert Reilly ★ Sir Albert Richardson ★ Henry Hobson Richardson ★ Gerrit Rietveld ★ Kevin Roche ★ Richard Rogers ★ Aldo Rossi ★ Wirt C. Rowland ★ Paul Rudolph ★ Eero Saarinen ★ Eliel Saarinen ★ Eugen Sacharias ★ Moshe Safdie ★ Paul Saintenoy ★ João Santa-Rita ★ Carlos A. Santos-Viola ★ Louis Sauer ★ Carlo Scarpa ★ Han Scharoun ★ Rudolf Schindler ★ Paul Schmitthenner ★ F.F. Schnitzer ★ Alexey Shchusev ★ Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky ★ Giles Gilbert Scott ★ Harry Seidler ★ Josep Lluís Sert ★ H. Craig Severance ★ Vladimir Shukhov ★ Claudio Silvestrin ★ Alvaro Siza ★ Howard Dwight Smith ★ George Washington Smith ★ Alison Smithson ★ Peter Smithson ★ Paolo Soleri ★ Alejandro de la Sota ★ Albert Speer ★ Basil Spence ★ Johann Otto von Spreckelsen ★ Rudolf Steiner ★ James Stirling (architect) ★ Edward Durrell Stone ★ Joseph Sunlight ★ Roger Taillibert ★ Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT - widow of Enric Miralles ★ Kenzo Tange ★ Bruno Taut ★ Max Taut ★ Giuseppe Terragni ★ Benjamin C. Thompson ★ Horace Trumbauer ★ Bernard Tschumi ★ Gilbert Stanley Underwood ★ Jørn Utzon (b1918) ★ William van Alen ★ Henry Van de Velde ★ Robert Venturi ★ Carlos Raúl Villanueva ★ Rafael Viñoly ★ Roland Wank ★ W. H. Weeks ★ Carl Westman (1866-1936) ★ Paul Williams (Architect) ★ Clough Williams-Ellis ★ Jan Wils ★ George J. Wimberly ★ Frank Lloyd Wright ★ Minoru Yamasaki ★ Hans Rudolf Zimmerman ★ Peter Zumthor

21st century architects

A - L ★ Amorphica ★ Ellen Dickson ★ Husaine Amri ★ Hidetsugu Aneha ★ Pierre Henri Argouarch Architecte - PHAR ★ Asymptote ★ Shigeru Ban ★ Donald Bates ''see:''Lab architecture studio ★ Vivek Bhati (India) ★ Eugenne Cabatan ★ Marco Casagrande ★ Thomas Contegiacomo ★ John Clancy ★ Preston Scott Cohen ★ Peter Davidson ''see:''Lab architecture studio ★ Ellen B. Dickson ★ Simon Rastorguev ★ Thomas Doerr ★ Catalin Dragomir ''see''[1] ★ Pierre de Mueron ★ Elizabeth Diller ★ Andreas Dilthey ★ Eric Corey Freed ★ Frederic Bereder ★ Tony Fretton ★ Robert Gallant ★ Yves Ghiai ★ Mark Goulthorpe ★ Zaha Hadid ★ Jacques Herzog ★ H.R.Hiegel ★ Steven Holl ★ Michael Hopkins ★ Scott Hughes ★ Toyo Ito ★ E. Fay Jones ★ Khaled Bernard Jouby ★ Justyna Karakiewicz ★ David Kitchens ★ Rem Koolhaas ★ Tom Kovac ★ Kengo Kuma ★ Greg Lynn

M - Z ★ Michael Maltzan ★ Thom Mayne ★ William McDonough ★ Saad Bin Nzir ★ Abel Oner ★ Mihir Patel ★ J.J. Payyapilly ★ Joshua Prince-Ramus ★ Wolf Prix ''see: '' Coop Himmelb(l)au ★ Kevin Quinlan ★ Safa' Rahman ★ Hani Rashid ''see: '' Asymptote ★ James Rees ★ Rahim Roudani (II) ★ Carl Stein FAIA ★ Jack Travis FAIA ★ Ben Wauford ★ Robin E. Whitehurst ★ Peter L. Wilson ★ James Wines ★ Gert Wingårdh ★ Lebbeus Woods ★ Ken Yeang ★ Mohamed Yousuf MG ★ Andrew Zago ★ Ming Zhang

Lists of architects by country

★ List of Australian architects

★ List of Austrian architects

★ List of Belgian architects

★ List of Brazilian architects

★ List of Canadian architects

★ List of Croatian architects

★ List of Dutch architects

★ List of Egyptian architects

★ List of Estonian architects

★ List of Finnish architects

★ List of Filipino architects

★ List of French architects

★ List of German architects

★ List of Hungarian architects

★ List of Indian architects

★ List of Indonesian architects

★ List of Iranian architects

★ List of Irish architects

★ List of Italian architects

★ List of Japanese architects

★ List of Mexican architects

★ List of Norwegian architects

★ List of Pakistani architects

★ List of Portuguese architects

★ See Spanish architecture

★ List of Romanian architects

★ List of Russian architects

★ List of Swedish architects

★ List of Turkish architects

★ List of United States architects

References

★ Steele, James ''Architecture Today'' Phaidon Press, (1997), ISBN 0-7148-3617-6

★ Russian architects directory