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Born May 16, 1901 • Frankfurt an der Oder • Germany
Died November 25, 1980 (aged 79) • Los Angeles • California
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
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Chicago Stock Exchange designed by Dankmar Adler, 1897, demolished 1972
Dankmar Adler
American architect
Prouvé, Jean: prefabricated gas station
Jean Prouvé
French engineer
Charles Sumner Greene
American architect
Henry Mather Greene
American architect
lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
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Stanford White
American architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
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James Bogardus
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McIntire, Samuel: Derby Summer House
Samuel McIntire
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
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Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
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Albert Kahn
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John Henry Belter
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Pierre Fontaine
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Impington Village College
Maxwell Fry
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