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Born 1512 • Venice • Italy
Died c.1595

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Rialto Bridge, Venice
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Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish engineer
Timothy Palmer
American architect
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers: Centre Georges Pompidou
Renzo Piano
Italian architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
Albert Fink
American engineer
Mackinac Bridge
David Barnard Steinman
American engineer
John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
Huey P. Long Bridge
Ralph Modjeski
American engineer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith
British civil engineer
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel
French engineer
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
German architect
Jean Perronet: Pont de la Concorde
Jean Perronet
French engineer

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