World Architects - Complete A-Z list, historic to contemporary

World Architect Portraits - Photos of key designers

The Prouvé family © VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Famous World Architects - Contemporary:

Architects are listed alphabetically for their surname

Tadao Ando

Santiago Calatrava
David Chipperfield
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Edward Cullinan Architects

Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Günther Domenig

Erick Van Egeraat
Peter Eisenman
Ralph Erskine

Terry Farrell
Feilden Clegg Bradley
Foreign Office Architects
Foster & Partners
Massimiliano Fuksas
Future Systems

Frank Gehry
Gerkan, Marg & Partners
Nicholas Grimshaw

Zaha Hadid
Herzog & de Meuron
Steven Holl
Hans Hollein
Michael Hopkins

Toyo Ito

Eva Jiricna

Rem Koolhaas
Kisho Kurokawa

Henning Larsen
Daniel Libeskind

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John McAslan
Rick Mather
Mecanoo architecten
Richard Meier
Enric Miralles
Rafael Moneo
Morphosis Architects
MVRDV

Jean Nouvel

I M Pei
Cesar Pelli
Dominique Perrault Architect
Renzo Piano

Ian Ritchie
Richard Rogers
Aldo Rossi

Moshe Safdie
Ian Simpson Architects
Alvaro Siza
Snohetta

Bernard Tschumi

UNStudio
Ushida Findlay

Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
Rafael Vinoly

Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Peter Zumthor



Famous World Architects - Historic:
Alvar Aalto
Robert Adam
Gunnar Asplund

Luis Barragan
Marcel Breuer
David Bryce
William Burn

William Chambers
Pierre Chareau
Wells Coates
CR Cockerell
Le Corbusier

Giancarlo De Carlo

Joseph Emberton

Max Fry

Charles Garnier
Antoni Gaudi
Bruce Goff
Ernö Goldfinger
Walter Gropius

Thomas Hamilton
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Hugo Häring
Herman Hertzberger
Josef Hoffmann
Howard, Killick, Partridge & Amis

Arne Jacobsen
Philip Johnson

Louis Kahn
William Kininmonth

Henri Labrouste
Morris Lapidus
Denys Lasdun
John Lautner
Claude Ledoux
Sigurd Lewerentz
Adolf Loos
Berthold Lubetkin
Edwin Lutyens

Rennie Mackintosh
Leslie Martin
Robert Matthew
Sydney Mitchell

Pier Luigi Nervi
Richard Neutra

J. M. Olbrich
Frei Otto

William Playfair
Jean Prouvé

Eero Saarinen
Hans Scharoun
Rudolf Schindler
Baillie Scott
George Gilbert Scott
John Soane
Jacques Soufflot
James Stirling

Thomas Tait
Kenzo Tange
Giuseppe Terragni
Alexander Thomson

Jorn Utzon

Mies Van der Rohe
Aldo van Eyck

Otto Wagner
William Wilkins
Christopher Wren
Frank Lloyd Wright


Louvre Pyramid, Paris - image © adrian welch

World Architects - by City:
Barcelona Architects
Cambridge Architects
Hong Kong Architects
New York Architects
Paris Architects


Science Centre, Glasgow - image from BDP Architects

OMA : Rem Koolhaas

World Architecture: City Guides
Barcelona Architecture
Cambridge Architecture
Copenhagen Architecture
Hong Kong Architecture
New York Architecture
Paris Architecture

Architecture Competition
Contemporary Architects
Modern Houses



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