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Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Vitruvius
Vitruvius ( ; ; –70 BC – after ) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled . As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It is not clear to what extent his contemporaries regarded his book as original or important.
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Andrea Palladio
Italian architect (1508–1580)
Adolf Loos
Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
Roger Scruton
English conservative philosopher and writer (1944–2020)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect (1944-)
Robert Venturi
American architect (1925-2018)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect (1931-1997)
Bruno Taut
German architect (1880–1938)
Gottfried Semper
German architect (1803–1879)
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian architect (born 1938)
Diébédo Francis Kéré
German-Burkinabe architect based in Berlin, Germany since 1985 (born 1965)
Peter Eisenman
American architect (born 1932)
Charles Jencks
American architecture theorist, critic and landscape architect (1939–2019)
Paolo Soleri
Italian architect (1919-2013)
Philippe de La Hire
French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)
Quatremère de Quincy
French archaeologist, architect and writer (1755–1849)
Christopher Alexander
American architect and design theorist (1936-2022)
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Étienne-Louis Boullée
French architect (1728–1799)
Denise Scott Brown
American architect (born 1931)
Marco Casagrande
Finnish architect
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French architect (1705–1774)
Archigram
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Oswald Mathias Ungers
German architect (1926–2007)
Otto Bartning
German architect (1883-1959)
Juhani Pallasmaa
Finnish architect (born 1936)
Frederick John Kiesler
Austrian architect and sculptor (1890-1965)
Christian Norberg-Schulz
Norwegian architect (1926–2000)
Volodymyr Zabolotnyi
Founder of the Academy of Architecture of Ukraine (1898–1962)
August Endell
German architect (1871-1925)
James Fergusson
Scottish architectural historian (1808–1886)
William Pereira
American architect (1909-1985)
Nikos Salingaros
Australian academic
Heinrich Hübsch
German architect (1795-1863)
Carlo Lodoli
Italian architect (1690-1761)
Reyner Banham
British architectural critic (1922–1988)
Wendel Dietterlin
German artist (1550-1599)
Yona Friedman
Hungarian-born French architect (1923–2019)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
German architect
Joseph Rykwert
British architectural historian and writer (1926–2024)
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
French architect
Ivan Zholtovskiy
Russian architect, 1867–1959 (1867–1959)
Wiel Arets
Dutch architect and urban planner (born 1955)
Henry Kulka
Czech architect (1900–1971)
Friedrich August Krubsacius
German architect
Yu Hao
Chinese architect
Julien Guadet
French architect (1834–1908)
Hans Schmidt
Swiss architect (1893-1972)
Dmitri Bruns
Estonian-Latvian architect (1929-2020)
Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Zanth
German architect and painter (1796-1857)
Mark Wigley
New Zealand architect and writer (born 1956)
Mark Jarzombek
American historian
Lucien Bechmann
French architect (1880–1968)