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100 Greatest Modern Architects

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Photo Name Key Building Image Key Building Other buildings
Sir Joseph Paxton
*3 August 1803
†8 June 1865
Crystal Palace
London, UK
1850 - 1851
Mentmore Towers (1854)
Château de Ferrières (1859)
George Gilbert Scott
*13 July 1811
†27 March 1878
Midland Grand Hotel
London, UK
1865 - 1873
St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg (1845)
Albert Memorial (1872)
Rajabai Clock Tower (1878)
Philip Webb
*12 January 1831
†17 April 1915
Red House, London
London, UK
1859 - 1860
1 Palace Green (1868)
Standen (1894)
Ödön Lechner
*27 August 1845
†10 June 1914
Geological Museum
Budapest, Hungary
1896 - 1899
Saint Ladislaus Church, Kőbánya (1891)
Church of St. Elisabeth, Bratislava (1907)
Antoni Gaudí
*25 June 1852
†10 June 1926
Sagrada Família
Barcelona, Spain
1882 - 2026
Casa Vicens (1883)
Casa Batlló (1905)
Casa Milà (1905)
Park Güell (1910)
Church of Colònia Güell (1914)
Louis Sullivan
*3 September 1856
†14 April 1924
Auditorium Building
Chicago, IL, USA
1887 - 1889
Wainwright Building (1891)
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co. Bldg (1899)
Krause Music Store (1922)
Victor Horta
*6 January 1861
†8 September 1947
Hôtel Tassel
Brussels, Belgium
1892 - 1893
Hôtel Solvay (1894)
Hôtel van Eetvelde (1898)
Horta Museum (1901)
Hector Guimard
*10 March 1867
†20 May 1942
Porte Dauphine Station entrance
Paris, France
1900
Paris Métro Stations (1900)
Maison Coilliot (1900)
Frank Lloyd Wright
*8 June 1867
†8 April 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York City, NY, USA
1956 - 1959
Robie House (1909)
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1923)
Fallingwater (1935)
Johnson Wax Headquarters (1936)
Peter Behrens
*14 April 1868
†27 February 1940
AEG Turbine Factory
Berlin, Germany
1908 - 1909
Architect's House (1901)
Gibraltar Dam (1920s)
Hans Poelzig
*30 April 1869
†14 June 1936
Poznań Water Tower
Poznań, Poland
1911
IG Farben Building (1931)
Edwin Lutyens
*29 March 1869
†1 January 1944
Viceroy's House
New Delhi, India
1912 - 1929
Deanery Garden (1901)
Castle Drogo (1911)
Midland Bank, Piccadilly (1922)
Adolf Loos
*10 December 1870
†23 August 1933
Goldman & Salatsch Building
Vienna, Austria
1909 - 1911
The Chicago Tribune Column (1923)
Villa Müller (1930)
Walter Burley Griffin
*24 November 1876
†11 February 1937
Canberra
Canberra, Australia
1914 - 1920
Hindmarsh Incinerator (1935)
Bruno Taut
*4 May 1880
†24 December 1938
Glass Pavilion
Cologne, Germany
1914
Hufeisensiedlung (1933)
Walter Gropius
*18 May 1883
†5 July 1969
Bauhaus
Dessau, Germany
1925 - 1926
Fagus Factory (1911)
Monument to the March Dead (1921)
Meisterhaus (1925)
Gunnar Asplund
*22 September 1885
†20 October 1940
Stockholm Public Library
Stockholm, Sweden
1924 - 1928
Listers County Court House, Sölvesborg (1917)
Forest Crematory (1940)
Vladimir Tatlin
*28 December 1885
†31 May 1953
Tatlin's Tower
St. Petersburg, Russia
1919
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
*27 March 1886
†17 August 1969
Barcelona Pavilion
Barcelona, Spain
1928 - 1929
Villa Tugendhat (1928)
860–880 Lake Shore Drive (1949)
Farnsworth House (1951)
Seagram Building (1958)
Erich Mendelsohn
*21 March 1887
†15 September 1953
Einstein Tower
Potsdam, Germany
1920 - 1921
Schocken Department Store (1926)
De La Warr Pavilion (1934)
Le Corbusier
*6 October 1887
†27 August 1965
Notre Dame du Haut
Ronchamp, France
1953 - 1955
Villa Savoye (1931)
Unité d'Habitation (1952)
Chandigarh (1966)
Antonio Sant'Elia
*30 April 1888
†10 October 1916
La Città Nuova
-
1913
Power Station (1914)
Gerrit Rietveld
*24 June 1888
†25 June 1965
Rietveld Schröder House
Utrecht, Netherlands
1923 - 1924
Van Gogh Museum (1973)
El Lissitzky
*23 November 1890
†30 December 1941
Wolkenbügel
Moscow, Russia
1924
Ogonyok Printing Plant (1932)
Pier Luigi Nervi
*21 June 1891
†9 January 1979
George Washington Bridge Bus Station
New York City, NY, USA
1963
UNESCO HQ (1950)
Pirelli Tower (1950)
Buckminster Fuller
*12 July 1895
†1 July 1983
Montreal Biosphère
Montreal, Canada
1967
Dymaxion House (1928)
Union Tank Car Dome (1958)
Alvar Aalto
*3 February 1898
†11 May 1976
Finlandia Hall
Helsinki, Finland
1967 - 1971
Paimio Sanatorium (1932)
Villa Mairea (1938)
Säynätsalo Town Hall (1951)
Louis Kahn
*20 February 1901
†17 March 1974
National Parliament House
Dhaka, Bangladesh
1961 - 1982
Yale University Art Gallery (1953)
Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1965)
Berthold Lubetkin
*14 December 1901
†23 October 1990
London Zoo Penguin Pool
London, UK
1934
Highpoint Housing Complex (1935)
Marcel Breuer
*21 May 1902
†1 July 1981
St. John's Abbey Church
Collegeville, MN, USA
1958 - 1961
UNESCO HQ (1958)
Cleveland Museum of Art (1970)
Luis Barragán
*9 March 1902
†22 November 1988
Torres de Satélite
Naucalpan, Mexico
1957 - 1958
Architect's House (1948)
Cuadra San Cristóbal (1968)
Bruce Goff
*8 June 1904
†4 August 1982
Bavinger House
Norman, OK, USA
1950 - 1955
Ledbetter House (1948)
Samuel Ford House (1959)
Albert Speer
*19 March 1905
†1 September 1981
Welthauptstadt Germania
Berlin, Germany
1937
New Reich Chancellery (1938)
Philip Johnson
*8 July 1906
†25 January 2005
Glass House
New Canaan, CT, USA
1949 - 1950
Crystal Cathedral (1977)
PPG Place (1981)
Sony Building (1984)
Da Monsta (1995)
Oscar Niemeyer
*15 December 1907
†5 December 2012
Brasília
Brasília, Brazil
1960-
Church of St. Francis of Assisi (1943)
UN HQ (1948)
Edifício Copan (1966)
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (1996)
Eero Saarinen
*20 August 1910
†1 September 1961
TWA Flight Center
New York City, NY, USA
1958 - 1962
Christ Church Lutheran (1948)
MIT Buildings (1950-55)
Gateway Arch (1965)
Félix Candela
*27 January 1910
†7 December 1997
''Los Manantiales'' Restaurant
Xochimilco, Mexico
1957 - 1958
Church of Our Miraculous Lady, Narvarte (1953)
Palacio de los Deportes (1968)
L'Oceanogràfic (2003)
Kenzō Tange
*4 September 1913
†22 March 2005
Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Tokyo, Japan
1961 - 1964
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1955)
St. Mary's Cathedral (1964)
Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Centre (1966)
Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center (1967)
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (1991)
Ralph Erskine
*24 February 1914
†16 March 2005
The Ark
London, UK
1989 - 1992
Skanskaskrapan (1989)
Greenwich Millennium Village (2000)
Ieoh Ming Pei
*26 April 1917
Louvre Pyramid
Paris, France
1983 - 1989
National Gallery East Building (1978)
Bank of China Tower (1982)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995)
Miho Museum (1996)
Aldo van Eyck
*16 March 1918
†14 January 1999
Amsterdam Orphanage
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1955 - 1960
Hubertus House (1980)
Jørn Utzon
*9 April 1918
†29 November 2008
Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia
1956 - 1973
Svaneke Water Tower (1949)
Bagsværd Church (1968)
Günter Behnisch
*12 June 1922
†12 July 2010
Hysolar
Stuttgart, Germany
1982 - 1987
Olympic Park (1972)
Robert Venturi
*25 June 1925
Vanna Venturi House
Chestnut Hill, MN, USA
1963 - 1964
Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery (1991)
James Stirling
*22 April 1926
†25 June 1992
Neue Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart, Germany
1977 - 1984
Engineering Building (1963)
Seeley Historical Library (1967)
César Pelli
*12 October 1926
Petronas Tower
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1993 - 1996
Pacific Design Center (1975)
World Financial Center (1987)
Two International Finance Centre (2003)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
*15 December 1928
†19 February 2000
Hundertwasserhaus
Vienna, Austria
1983 - 1985
St. Barbara's Church (1984)
Hundertwasser Toilets (1999)
Green Citadel of Magdeburg (2005)
Frank Gehry
*28 February 1929
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
1991 - 1997
Gehry Residence (1977)
Dancing House (1996)
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1999)
Experience Music Project (2000)
Aldo Rossi
*3 May 1931
†4 September 1997
Kochstrasse Residential Building
Berlin, Germany
1989
Teatro del Mondo (1979)
Bonnefanten Museum (1990)
Quartier Schützenstrasse (1998)
Peter Eisenman
*11 August 1932
House VI
Cornwall, CT, USA
1972 - 1975
Wexner Center for the Arts (1989)
Aachen Bus Shelter (1996)
University of Phoenix (2006)
Richard Rogers
*23 July 1933
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
1971 - 1977
Lloyd's Building (1978)
Millennium Dome (1999)
Terminal 4, Madrid Airport (2006)
Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport (2008)
Álvaro Siza Vieira
*25 June 1933
Portuguese Pavilion, Expo '98
Lisbon, Portugal
1998
Church of Santa Maria, Marco de Canaveses (1996)
Kisho Kurokawa
*8 April 1934
†12 October 2007
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Tokyo, Japan
1970 - 1972
Ōita Bank Dome (1996)
Singapore Flyer (2005)
Fusionopolis (2006)
Douglas Cardinal
*7 March 1934
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington D. C., USA
1993 - 1998
Oujé-Bougoumou Cultural Institute (1996)
First Nations University of Canada (2003)
Michael Graves
*9 July 1934
Portland Building
Portland, OR, USA
1980 - 1983
San Juan Capistrano Library (1982)
Michael Eisner Building (1986)
Denver Public Library (1990)
Richard Meier
*12 October 1934
Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
1984 - 1997
The Atheneum (1979)
High Museum of Art (1983)
International Center for Possibility Thinking (2003)
Jubilee Church (2003)
John Outram
*21 June 1934
Pumping Station, Isle of Dogs
London, UK
1986 - 1988
Cambridge Judge Business School (1995)
Computational Engineering Building (1996)
Imre Makovecz
*20 November 1935
†27 September 2011
Holy Spirit Church
Paks, Hungary
1987 - 1991
Farkasréti Cemetery Funeral Chapel (1975)
Lutheran Church, Siofók (1990)
Lendava Theatre (2004)
Norman Foster
*1 June 1935
Reichstag reconstruction
Berlin, Germany
1993 - 1999
HSBC Building (1979)
Torre de Collserola (1992)
Commerzbank Tower (1997)
London City Hall (2000)
30 St Mary Axe (2001)
Sage Gateshead (2004)
Millau Viaduct (2004)
Michael Hopkins
*7 May 1935
Schlumberger Research Centre
Cambridge, UK
1982 - 1992
Architect's House (1975)
Mound Stand (1991)
Portcullis House (2001)
Renzo Piano
*14 September 1937
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
1971 - 1977
Main Terminal, Kansai Airport (1994)
California Academy of Sciences (2008)
The Shard (2012)
Paul Andreu
*10 July 1938
National Grand Theatre
Beijing, China
2001 - 2007
Roissy 2F (1990)
Osaka Maritime Museum (2000)
Moshe Safdie
*14 July 1938
Habitat 67
Montreal, Canada
1966 - 1967
National Gallery of Canada (1988)
Marina Bay Sands (2011)
United States Institute of Peace (2011)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2011)
Virasat-e-Khalsa (2011)
Nicholas Grimshaw
*9 October 1939
Eden Project
St. Austell, UK
1998 - 2000
Western Morning News HQ (1993)
National Space Centre (2001)
Cutty Sark Museum Ship (2012)
Tadao Ando
*13 September 1941
Church of the Light
Ibaraki, Japan
1988 - 1989
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2002)
Tokyo Sky Tree (2009)
Toyo Ito
*1 June 1941
Tod's Omotesando
Tokyo, Japan
2004
Sendai Mediatheque (2001)
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (2002)
Torre Realia BCN & Hotel Porta Fira (2009)
Mario Botta
*1 April 1943
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
1992 - 1995
Casa Rotonda (1982)
Évry Cathedral (1995)
Campari HQ (2009)
Eric Owen Moss
*1943
Umbrella
Culver City, CA, USA
1999
What Wall? (1998)
Beehive (2002)
Samitaur Tower (2009)
Peter Zumthor
*26 April 1943
Therme Vals
Vals, Switzerland
1997
St. Benedict Chapel (1989)
Bruder Klaus Kapelle (2007)
Massimiliano Fuksas
*9 January 1944
Blob
Eindhoven, Netherlands
2010
MyZeil (2009)
Tbilisi Public Service Hall (2012)
Rem Koolhaas
*17 November 1944
Seattle Central Library
Seattle, WA, USA
1999 - 2004
Netherlands Embassy Berlin (2003)
Casa da Música (2005)
CCTV HQ (2012)
Bernard Tschumi
*25 January 1944
Parc de la Villette
Paris, France
1984 - 1990
Blue Condominium (2007)
Jean Nouvel
*12 August 1945
Torre Agbar
Barcelona, Spain
1999 - 2004
Arab World Institute (1987)
Fondation Cartier (1994)
Alberto Campo Baeza
*1946
Caja Granada HQ Bank
Granada, Spain
2001
Andalusia Museum of Memory (2008)
Daniel Libeskind
*12 May 1946
Jewish Museum
Berlin, Germany
1989 - 1999
Frederic C. Hamilton Building (2000)
Royal Ontario Museum (2002)
Military History Museum (2011)
New World Trade Center masterplan (2014)
Steven Holl
*9 December 1947
Linked Hybrid
Beijing, China
2003 - 2009
Kiasma (1998)
Simmons Hall, MIT (2002)
Zaha Hadid
*31 October 1950
Vitra Fire Station
Weil am Rhein, Germany
1992 - 1993
Cardiff Bay Opera House (1995)
Bridge Pavilion (2008)
Dongdaemun Design Plaza (2014)
Santiago Calatrava
*28 July 1951
City of Arts and Sciences
Valencia, Spain
1991 - 2006
Stadelhofen Railway Station (1990)
Puente del Alamillo (1992)
Montjuic Communications Tower (1992)
Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry (1994)
Milwaukee Art Museum (2001)
Auditorio de Tenerife (2003)
Turning Torso (2005)
Chicago Spire (2005)
World Trade Center Station (2014)
Eduardo Souto de Moura
*25 July 1952
Paula Rego Museum
Cascais, Portugal
2008 - 2009
Estádio Municipal de Braga (2004)
David Chipperfield
*18 December 1953
River and Rowing Museum
Henley-on-Thames, UK
1989 - 1997
Figge Art Museum (2005)
Museum of Modern Literature (2006)
Dominique Perrault
*9 April 1953
French National Library
Paris, France
1989 - 1995
Velodrome (1999)
DC Towers (2014)
Eugene Tsui
*14 September 1954
Architect's House
Berkeley, CA, USA
1993 - 1995
Watsu School, Harbin Hot Springs (1996)
Eye in the Sky Lookout Tower
Gibraltar Strait Crossing
Shigeru Ban
*5 August 1957
Paper House
Yamanaka Lake, Japan
1995 - 1997
Takatori Catholic Church (1995)
Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010)
Cardboard Cathedral (2013)
Thomas Spiegelhalter
*1959
Rieselfeld
Freiburg, Germany
1996 - 1997
Shuhei Endo
*1960
Bubbletecture H
Hyogo, Japan
2006 - 2008
Transtation O (1996)
Rooftecture H (2005)

Architectural firms and studios

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Name Key People Key Building Image Key Building Other buildings
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
est. 1936
John O. Merrill (1896-1975)
Louis Skidmore (1897-1962)
Nathaniel A. Owings (1903-1984)
Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990)
Fazlur Khan (1929-1982)
Adrian Smith (*1944)
Lever House
New York City, NY, USA
1950 - 1952
John Hancock Center (1969)
Hajj Terminal, Jeddah Airport (1972)
Willis Tower (1973)
National Commercial Bank HQ (1983)
Jin Mao Tower (1999)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (2009)
Burj Khalifa (2009)
Archigram
est. 1961
Warren Chalk (*1927)
Ron Herron (1930-1991)
Dennis Crompton (*1935)
Peter Cook (*1936)
Michael Webb (*1937)
David Greene (*1937)
Walking City
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1964
Plug-in City (1966)
Coop Himmelb(l)au
est. 1968
Wolf Prix (*1942)
Michael Holzer (*1943)
Helmut Swiczinsky (*1944)
Lawyer's Office Rooftop Remodeling
Vienna, Austria
1983 - 1988
UFA-Palast (1998)
Gasometer (2001)
BMW Welt (2007)
Morphosis
est. 1972
Thom Mayne (*1944)
San Francisco Federal Building
San Francisco, CA, USA
2003 - 2007
Sun Tower (1997)
41 Cooper Square (2009)
Kohn Pedersen Fox
est. 1976
Eugene Kohn (*1930)
Sheldon Fox (1930-2006)
William Pedersen (*1938)
Shanghai World Financial Center
Shanghai, China
1997 - 2008
Westendstrasse 1 (1993)
International Commerce Centre (2010)
Arquitectonica
est. 1977
Andrés Duany (*1949)
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (*1950)
Bernardo Fort-Brescia (*1950)
Laurinda Hope Spear (*1951)
Atlantis Condominium
Miami, FL, USA
1980 - 1982
Westin New York Hotel (2002)
Herzog & de Meuron
est. 1978
Jacques Herzog (*1950)
Pierre de Meuron (*1950)
Tate Modern
London, UK
2000
Goetz Collection (1992)
Allianz Arena (2005)
Beijing National Stadium (2008)
Elbe Philharmonic Hall (2016)
Future Systems
est. 1979
Jan Kaplický (1937-2009)
Amanda Levete (*1955)
Selfridges Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
1999 - 2003
Lord's Media Centre (1999)
National Library of the Czech Republic (2007)
Murphy/Jahn
est. 1981
Charles Murphy (1890-1985)
Helmut Jahn (*1940)
Sony Center
Berlin, Germany
2000
Messeturm (1991)
Post Tower (2003)
Branson Coates
est. 1983
Nigel Coates (*1949)
Dough Branson (*1951)
National Centre for Popular Music
Sheffield, UK
1996 - 1998
Body Zone, Millennium Dome (2000)
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
est. 1983
Jim Eyre
Chris Wilkinson (*1945)
Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay
Singapore, Singapore
2006 - 2012
Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2002)
MVRDV
est. 1991
Winy Maas (*1959)
Jacob van Rijs (*1964)
Nathalie de Vries (*1965)
Dutch Pavilion, EXPO '00
Hannover, Germany
1997 - 2000
Villa VPRO (1993)
WOZOCO Housing (1997)
The Cloud (2015?)
NOX
est. 1991
Lars Spuybroek (*1959)
Maurice Nio (*1959)
Water Pavilion H2O
Neeltje Jans, Netherlands
1994 - 1997
D-Tower (1999)
James Law Cybertecture
est. 2001
James Law Technosphere
Dubai, UAE
2008 - ????
Cybertecture Egg (2008)
Agence Babylone
est. 2003
Jeoffroy de Castelbajac (*1957)
Henri de Dreuzy (*1974)
Adrien Fourès (*1978)
Vincent Léger (*1978)
Active Nature
Saclay, France
2007 - ????