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Born February 11, 1902 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died March 24, 1971 (aged 69) • Copenhagen • Denmark

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Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
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French architect
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
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American architect
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American architect
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American architect and engineer
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Swiss architect
Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect
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American architect
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Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Le Corbusier
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Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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