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architect (enc)

Architect

Noun1.architect - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist - someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively
Aalto, Alvar Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto - Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976)
Robert Adam, Adam - Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti - Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)
Behrens, Peter Behrens - German architect known for his simple utilitarian factory buildings (1868-1940)
Berlage, Hendrik Petrus Berlage - Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934)
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini - Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)
Bramante, Donato Bramante, Donato d'Agnolo Bramante - great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514)
Breuer, Marcel Lajos Breuer - United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981)
Brunelleschi, Filippo Brunelleschi - Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446)
Bullfinch, Charles Bullfinch - United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844)
Burnham, Daniel Hudson Burnham - United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912)
Butterfield, William Butterfield - English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900)
Carrere, John Merven Carrere - United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911)
Chambers, Sir William Chambers, William Chambers - English architect (1723-1796)
de l'Orme, Delorme, Philibert de l'Orme, Philibert Delorme - French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570)
Buckminster Fuller, Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
Garnier, Jean Louis Charles Garnier - French architect (1825-1898)
Antonio Gaudi, Antonio Gaudi i Cornet, Gaudi, Gaudi i Cornet - Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926)
Cass Gilbert, Gilbert - United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
Giotto, Giotto di Bondone - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
Gropius, Walter Gropius - United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969)
Hastings, Thomas Hastings - United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
Hoffmann, Josef Hoffmann - Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956)
Horta, Victor Horta - Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947)
Richard Morris Hunt, Hunt - United States architect (1827-1895)
Jenny, William Le Baron Jenny - United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
Inigo Jones, Jones - one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn - United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974)
Henri Labrouste, Labrouste - French architect who was among the first to use metal construction successfully (1801-1875)

 

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