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This list of American architects includes notable architects and architecture firms with a strong connection to the United States (i.e., born in the United States, located in the United States or known primarily for their work in the United States).
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.
Key influential American architects of the period include Richard Morris Hunt, Frank Furness, and Henry Hobson Richardson. After the war, the uniquely American Stick Style developed as a form of construction that uses wooden rod trusswork, the origin of its name. The style was commonly used in houses, hotels, railway depots, and other ...
John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530–1830; Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980), Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture; John Harvey (1911–1997), English Gothic architecture and architects; Bruno Zevi (1918-2000), modern achitecture
Pages in category "American architects" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 288 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.
American colonial architecture 1720–1780s US; American Craftsman 1890s–1930 US, California & east; American Empire 1810; American Foursquare mid. 1890s-late 1930s US; Amsterdam School 1912–1924 Netherlands; Ancient Egyptian architecture 3000 BC – 373 AD; Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC – 265 BC; Angevin Gothic since 1148, western France
Academic architecture was evident, but it was relatively scarce. The best example of Mid-Atlantic Colonial academic architecture is the 1774 Hammond–Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland. This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570