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The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, which point to an article in the English Wikipedia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), author of the 46-volume series, The Buildings of England; Leopoldo C. Artucio (1903–1976), modern architecture in Uruguay; Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architectural history; John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530–1830
The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects or Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni is a series of artist biographies written by Gian Pietro Bellori (1613–1696), whom Julius von Schlosser called "the most important historiographer of art not only of Rome, but all Italy, even of Europe, in the seventeenth century". [1]
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...
[citation needed] On that list, Wright was listed along with many of the USA's other greatest architects including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; he was the only architect who had more than one building on the list. The other three buildings were the Guggenheim Museum, the Frederick C. Robie ...
Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect and a key figure in modern art, especially 19th-century architecture. His earliest works include designing lampposts, which exposed his extraordinary work to ...
Architects associated with Modernist architecture, particularly of the first half of the 20th-century Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories ...
This list of British architects includes notable architects, civil engineers, and earlier stonemasons, from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. People have ...