A — Z

Meet the architects.

From classical masters to contemporary visionaries.

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

1898 — 1976

Finnish

Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza

1933 —

Portuguese

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

1852 — 1926

Spain

Balkrishna Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi

1927 — 2023

Indian

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels

1974 —

Danish

Carlo Mollino

1905 — 1973

Italian

Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa

1906 — 1978

Italian

David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield

1953 —

British

Denys Lasdun

Denys Lasdun

1914 — 2001

British

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré

1965 —

Burkinabé-German

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen

1910 — 1961

Finnish-American

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

1929 —

Canada / United States

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

1867 — 1959

United States

Gio Ponti

Gio Ponti

1891 — 1979

Italian

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

1936 —

Australian

Gottfried Böhm

Gottfried Böhm

1920 — 2021

German

Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun

1893 — 1972

German

Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron

1950 —

Swiss

I. M. Pei

I. M. Pei

1917 — 2019

Chinese-American

Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel

1945 —

French

John Pawson

John Pawson

1949 —

British

Jørn Utzon

Jørn Utzon

1918 — 2008

Danish

Kazuyo Sejima

Kazuyo Sejima

1956 —

Japanese

Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma

1954 —

Japanese

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange

1913 — 2005

Japanese

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

1887 — 1965

Switzerland / France

Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi

1914 — 1992

Italian-Brazilian

Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn

1901 — 1974

American

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1886 — 1969

Germany / United States

Mimar Sinan

Mimar Sinan

1490 — 1588

Ottoman

Norman Foster

Norman Foster

1935 —

British

Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

1907 — 2012

Brazil

Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

1943 —

Swiss

Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

1906 — 2005

American

Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas

1944 —

Dutch

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

1937 —

Italian

Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers

1933 — 2021

British

SANAA

SANAA

1995 —

Japanese

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava

1951 —

Spanish-Swiss

Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban

1957 —

Japanese

Sigurd Lewerentz

Sigurd Lewerentz

1885 — 1975

Swedish

Snøhetta

Snøhetta

1989 —

Norwegian

Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn

1924 — 2009

Norwegian

Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

1941 —

Japan

Thomas Heatherwick

Thomas Heatherwick

1970 —

British

Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito

1941 —

Japanese

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

1883 — 1969

German-American

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid

1950 — 2016

Iraq / United Kingdom