Our Great Architects

If you are curious about who has designed the most famous buildings in the world, look no further. The following is a list of architects with their biographical data, and – with Brown Bold – the building or area they are most known for. The links of the buildings take you usually to their Wikipedia page. 

1423-0706 Antonio Manetti* mathematician/architect – Florence, Republic of Florence (1497/73)

1475-0306 Michelangelo* sculptor/painter/architect – Arezzo, Republic of Florence (1564)

1508-1130 Andrea Palladio* architect – Padua, Republic of Venice (1580/71)

1521-0405 Francesco Laparelli* architect/assistant of Michelangelo – Cortona, Republic of Florence (1570/49)

1569-1222 Étienne Martellange* Jesuit architect/draftsman – Lyon, France (1641/71)

1613-0312 André Le Nôtre* landscape architect (Versailles)/gardener – Paris, France (1700/87)

1613-0925 Claude Perrault* architect/physician/author – Paris, France (1688/75) East facade of the Palais du Louvre (Paris, France)

1655-0707 Christoph Dientzenhofer* architect – Brannenburg, Bavaria, Germany (1722/66)

1662-0606 Mannus Riedesel* architect – Melbach, Balde, Germany (1726/64)

1666-0315 George Bähr* architect/became the first in Germany to go by the title of “Architect” – Fürstenwalde, Saxony, Germany (1738/72) Frauenkirche (Dresden, Germany)

1691-0617 Giovanni Paolo Panini* painter/architect – Placenza, Duchy of Parma, Roman Empire (1765/74)

1691-0825 Alessandro Galilei* mathematician/architect – Florence, Italy (1737/46)

1702-0210 Carlo Marchionni* architect/sculptor – Rome, Italy (1786/84)

1710-0925 Augustin Ehrensvärd* military officer/architect – Fullerö, Västmanland, Sweden (1772/62) Suomenlinna Fortress (Helsinki, Finland)

1732-1215 Carl Gotthard Langhals* architect/designer of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate – Landeshut, Silesia, German Empire (1808/85)

1739-xxxx Jean Chalgrin* architect – Paris, France (1811/c.71) – Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France)

1752-0118 John Nash* architect/designed most of the Buckingham Palace – Lambeth, London, England (1835/83)

1753-0910 John Soane* architect – Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (1837/83)

1763-0808 Charles Bulfinch* architect – Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1844/80) United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

1778-0703 Carl Ludvig Engel* architect (Empire style) – Charlottenburg, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1840/61) Helsinki Senate Square etc (Helsinki, Finland)

1781-0812 Robert Mills* architect/ designer of the Washington Monument – Charleston, South Carolina USA (1855/73)

1801-0511 Henri Labrouste* architect – Paris, France (1875/74)

1801-0604 James Pennethorne* architect – Worcester, England (1871/70)

1803-1129 Gottfried Semper* architect/art critic – Hamburg, Germany (1879/75)

1808-0218 Alexey Gornostaev* architect – Vytkinsky Zavod, Russian Empire (1862) Uspenski Cathedral (Helsinki, Finland)

1811-0713 George Gilbert Scott* architect – Parsonage, Buckinghamshire, England (1878/66)-a

1825-0313 Benjamin Mountfort* architect – Birmingham, England (1898/73)

1826-0309 Jacob Haish* carpenter/architect/barbed wire manufacturer – Germany (1926/99)

1831-0507 Richard Norman Shaw* architect – Edinburgh, Scotland (1912/81)

1838-0929 Henry Hobson Richardson* architect – St. James Parish, LA USA (1886/47) Trinity Church (Boston, Massachusetts)

1846-0904 Daniel Burnham* architect/urban planer – Henderson, NY USA (1912/65)

1847-0206 Henry Janeway Hardenbergh* architect – New Brunswick, NJ USA (1918/71) – The Dakota (New York, NY USA)

1850-0110 John Wellborn Root* architect – Lumpkin, GA USA (1891/41)

1856-0121 Gustaf Nyström* architect/teacher – Helsinki, Finland (1917/61) Covered Market (Helsinki, Finland)

1856-0903 Louis Sullivan* architect/”father of skyscrapers” – Boston, MA USA (1924/67) Prudential Building (Buffalo, New York)

1856-1116 Jürgen Kröger* architect/builder of churches – Haale, Germany (1928/71) Gare-de-Metz-Ville (Metz, France)

1859-1124 Cass Gilbert* architect – Zanesville, OH USA (1934/74) – Woolworth Building (New York, NY USA)

1866-0714 Ragnar Östberg* architect – Stockholm, Sweden (1945/78) Stockholm City Hall (Stockholm, Sweden)

1867-0608 Frank Lloyd Wright* architect/interior designer/educator – Richland Center, WI USA (1959/91) Falling Water (Mill Run, Pennsylvania)

1870-0810 Lars Sonck* architect – Kälviä, GD of Finland (1956/85) Kallio Church
(Helsinki, Finland)

1872-0120 Julia Morgan* architect – San Francisco, CA USA (1957/85)-a

1873-0820 Eliel Saarinen* Finnish-American architect – Rantasalmi, GD of Finland (1950/76) Helsinki Central Station (Helsinki, Finland)

1874-0116 Herman Gesellius* architect – Helsinki, GD of Finland (1916/42)

1874-1128 Armas Lindgren* architect – Hämeenlinna, GD of Finland (1929/54) National Museum of Finland (Helsinki, Finland)

1876-1102 Alfred S. Alschuler* architect – Chicago, IL USA (1940/63) Chicago Mercantile Exchange (Chicago, Illinois)

1876-1102 William Haywood* architect – Birmingham, England (1957/81)
1877-0914 Agnes Ballard* architect/educator – Oxford, MA USA (1969/92)

1878-0809 Eileen Gray* architect/furniture designer – Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland (1976/98)

1883-0810 William Van Alen* architect (Chrysler Building) – Brooklyn, NY USA (1954/70) Chrysler Building

1886-0221 Howard Dwight Smith* architect – Dayton, OH USA (1958/72)

1890-0604 Otto-Iivari Meurman* architect – Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1994/104)
1891-0207 Erik Bryggman* architect – Turku, GD of Finland (1955/64)

1892-0406 Ernst L. Freud* Austrian-British architect/son of Sigmund Freud – Vienna, Austria (1970/78)-a
1893-0716 Beatrice Hutton* architect/the first female to be admitted to an architect school in Australia – Lakes Creek, Queensland, Australia (1990/97)

1894-0125 Aino Aalto* (b Mandelin) architect/designer/wife of Alvar Aalto – Helsinki, Finland (1949/54)

1898-0203 Alvar Aalto* architect/designer – Kuortane, GD of Finland (1976/78) Finlandia Hall (Helsinki, Finland)

1902-0625 Risto-Veikko Luukkonen* architect – Helsinki, GD of Finland (1972/70)

1908-0523 Max Abramovitz* architect – Chicago, IL USA (2004/96) Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building (Phoenix, Arizona)

1910-0820 Eero Saarinen* Finnish American architect/designer – Kirkkonummi, Grand Duchy of Finland (1961/51) Gateway Arch (St. Louis, MO)

1912-0804 Raoul Wallenberg* architect/ businessman/humanitarian – Lidingö, Stockholm, Sweden (disappeared 1945/d1952)

1917-0426 I. M. Pei* Chinese-American architect – Guangzhou, Canton, China – Louvre Pyramid (Paris, France)

1918-0409 Jørn Utzon* architect/designer of Sydney Opera House – Copenhagen, Denmark (2008/90) Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia)

1925-0406 Paul Ritter* Australian architect/town planner/artist – Prague, Czech Republic (2010/85)-a

1937-0914 Renzo Piano* architect – Genoa, Italy – The Shard (London, England)

1943-0818 A.T. Mann* astrologer/architect/graphic designer – Auburn, NY USA

1943-1201 Nicholas Negroponte* architect/founder of OLPC – New York, NY USA

1944-0713 Ernö Rubik* architect/inventor of the Rubik Cube – Budapest, Hungary

1948-0509 Kenneth Gärdestad* songwriter/lyricist/architect – Sollentuna, Sweden (2018/69)

1951-0728 Santiago Calatrava* architect – Valencia, Spain – World Trade Center Station (PATH) (New York, NY USA)

Updated 19.7.2019