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Born August 24, 1847 • Chester • Pennsylvania
Died September 14, 1909 (aged 62) • New York
Founder McKim, Mead, & White
Movement / Style Shingle style

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H.H. Richardson
American architect
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., designed by Henry Bacon, 1911.
Henry Bacon
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen; Mead, William Rutherford; White, Stanford
Stanford White
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
chapel at Turku, Finland
Erik Bryggman
Finnish architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
Cret, Paul Phillippe: Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
Paul Phillippe Cret
American architect
Harrison, Peter: Redwood Library
Peter Harrison
British architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect

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