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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Rudolph, Paul: Orange County Government Center
Paul Rudolph
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
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German-American architect
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