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Born June 21, 1919 • Turin • Italy
Died April 9, 2013 (aged 93) • Paradise Valley • Arizona
Subjects Of Study urban planning

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Pietro Belluschi
Italian-American architect
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
American architect
Andrés Duany
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
French engineer and architect
Sert
José Luis Sert
American architect
Lewis Mumford
American architectural critic
The Metro Center Station in Washington, D.C., part of an 86-station subway system designed by Harry M. Weese and opened in 1976.
Harry M. Weese
American architect
Richard Joseph Neutra
Austrian-American architect
Victor Gruen
American architect
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
Francesco Di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist
José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect
Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Otto, Frei
Frei Otto
German architect
Tatiana Bilbao
Tatiana Bilbao
Mexican architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Charles Correa
Indian architect

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