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Born December 10, 1870 • Brno • Czech Republic
Died August 23, 1933 (aged 62) • Austria

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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Richard Joseph Neutra
Austrian-American architect
Hoffmann, Josef
Josef Hoffmann
Austrian architect
Jean I Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect
Pierre de Meuron
Swiss architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
Antoni Gaudí: Sagrada Família
Antoni Gaudí
Spanish architect
Álvaro Siza: Bouça social housing complex
Álvaro Siza
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Richard Meier: Atheneum
Richard Meier
American architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
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