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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
American architect
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect
Rudolph, Paul: Orange County Government Center
Paul Rudolph
American architect
Museum of Modern Art
Yoshio Taniguchi
Japanese architect
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian-American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect

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