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Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.7 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.7 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area of the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. These buildings are characterized by their sculptural, often undulating exteriors and innovative use of materials such as titanium and stainless steel.
Heinrich Schliemann
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
Renzo Piano
Italian architect (1937-)
Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
Kenzō Tange
Japanese architect (1913–2005)
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879)
Arthur Evans
British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect (1944-)
Tadao Ando
Japanese architect (born 1941)
Richard Meier
American architect (born 1934)
Jørn Utzon
Danish architect (1918–2008)
Jean Nouvel
French architect (b.1945)
Frei Otto
German architect (1925-2015)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
Richard Rogers
British architect (1933–2021)
Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Louis Kahn
Estonian-American architect (1901–1974)
Edwin Lutyens
British architect (1869–1944)
Frederic Leighton
English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)
Eliel Saarinen
Finnish-American architect (1873-1950)
Peter Zumthor
Swiss architect
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Portuguese architect (1933-)
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect (1931-2022)
Karl Richard Lepsius
German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian (1810-1884)
Charles Garnier
French architect (1825–1898)
Kazuyo Sejima
Japanese architect (1956-)
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect (born 1941)
James Stirling
English architect (1926–1992)
Auguste Perret
French architect (1874–1954)
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect (1928–2021)
Rafael Moneo
Spanish architect (born 1937)
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer (1891-1979)
Herzog & de Meuron
Architecture firm based in Basel (founded 1978)
Leo von Klenze
German architect and painter (1784–1864)
David Chipperfield
English architect (born 1953)
Balkrishna Doshi
Indian architect (1927-2023)
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Dutch architect (1856-1934)
Theophil Hansen
Danish architect (1813–1891)
Ryue Nishizawa
Japanese architect (1966-)
Yvonne Farrell
Irish architect (born 1951)
Shelley McNamara
Irish architect
Nikolaus Pevsner
German-born British scholar (1902-1983)
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German architect and archaeologist (1853–1940)
Pierre Cuypers
Dutch architect (1827-1921)
George Gilbert Scott
English architect (1811–1878)
Charles Barry
British architect (1795–1860)
Lesley Lokko
Ghanaian architect and writer
Willem Marinus Dudok
Dutch modernist architect best known for his design of Hilversum Town Hall (1884-1974)
Patrick Abercrombie
British architect (1879–1957)
SANAA
thumb|Kitagata Housing project by SANAA thumb|Zollverein School of Management and Design (Essen/Germany) by SANAA thumb|Christian Dior building, Omotesandō thumb|Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2009 thumb|The EPFL Learning Centre, [[Lausanne (Switzerland).]] thumb|De Kunstlinie Theater & Cultural Center, Almere (The Netherlands) thumb|Taichung Main Public Library (Taichung Green Museumbrary) (Taiwan)