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Most Famous Architects and Architecture


Famous Architects I

  1. The Shard in London - Renzo Piano
  2. The Cenotaph - Sir Edwin Lutyens
  3. La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - Antoni Gaudi
  4. Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York City - Frank Lloyd Wright
  5. Millennium Dome - Richard Rogers
  6. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain - Frank Gehry
  7. Burj Al Arab in Dubai - Tom Wright (British)




  8. Sydney Opera House - Jorn Utzon
  9. Buckingham Palace (remodelled), Marble Arch, and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton - John Nash
  10. Coventry Cathedral - Basil Spence
  11. Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier, which translates into English as "the crowlike one" - real name Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
  12. Reichstag building redevelopment in Berlin (1999), Millennium Bridge, and London City Hall (2002) - Norman Foster
  13. The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe in London - Norman Foster
  14. St. Paul's Cathedral - Sir Christopher Wren
  15. The White House in Washington, D.C. - James Hoban
  16. Palace of Westminster - Sir Charles Barry




Famous Architects II

  1. Flatiron Building in New York City - Daniel Burnham
  2. Crystal Palace - Sir Joseph Paxton
  3. Glasgow School of Art - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  4. London Aquatics Centre - Zaha Hadid
  5. Portmeirion - Clough Williams-Ellis
  6. Designing Canberra, Australia's capital city - Walter Burley Griffin
  7. Royal Crescent, Bath - John Wood
  8. Washington, D.C. - Pierre Charles L'Enfant
  9. The civic buildings for Brasília - Oscar Niemeyer
  10. Royal Albert Hall - Henry Young Darracott Scott
  11. Palace of Versailles (first architect) - Louis Le Vau



  12. Louvre Pyramid - I. M. Pei
  13. Taj Mahai in Agra - Ustad-Ahmad Lahori (chief architect)
  14. Burj Khalifa - Adrian Smith (American)
  15. Blenheim Palace, and Castle Howard - Sir John Vanbrugh
  16. Big Ben - Augustus Pugin
  17. Canterbury Cathedral - William of Sens
  18. Lotus Temple, Delhi, India - Fariborz Sahba
  19. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" - Frederick Gibberd
  20. The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University - James Gibbs