A — Z
Meet the architects.
From classical masters to contemporary visionaries.
Alvar Aalto
1898 — 1976
Finnish
Álvaro Siza
1933 —
Portuguese
Antoni Gaudí
1852 — 1926
Spain
Bjarke Ingels
1974 —
Danish
Carlo Scarpa
1906 — 1978
Italian
David Chipperfield
1953 —
British
Eero Saarinen
1910 — 1961
Finnish-American
Frank Gehry
1929 —
Canada / United States
Frank Lloyd Wright
1867 — 1959
United States
Glenn Murcutt
1936 —
Australian
Herzog & de Meuron
1950 —
Swiss
I. M. Pei
1917 — 2019
Chinese-American
Jean Nouvel
1945 —
French
John Pawson
1949 —
British
Jørn Utzon
1918 — 2008
Danish
Kazuyo Sejima
1956 —
Japanese
Kengo Kuma
1954 —
Japanese
Kenzo Tange
1913 — 2005
Japanese
Le Corbusier
1887 — 1965
Switzerland / France
Louis Kahn
1901 — 1974
American
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1886 — 1969
Germany / United States
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1886 — 1969
German-American
Mimar Sinan
1490 — 1588
Ottoman
Norman Foster
1935 —
British
Oscar Niemeyer
1907 — 2012
Brazil
Peter Zumthor
1943 —
Swiss
Philip Johnson
1906 — 2005
American
Rem Koolhaas
1944 —
Dutch
Renzo Piano
1937 —
Italian
Richard Rogers
1933 — 2021
British
Santiago Calatrava
1951 —
Spanish-Swiss
Shigeru Ban
1957 —
Japanese
Snøhetta
1989 —
Norwegian
Tadao Ando
1941 —
Japan
Thomas Heatherwick
1970 —
British
Walter Gropius
1883 — 1969
German-American
Zaha Hadid
1950 — 2016
Iraq / United Kingdom