Architecture

Richard Meier was the youngest architect to receive his profession's highest accolade, the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The Wainwright Building (also known as the Wainwright State Office Building) is a 10-story, 41 m (135 ft) terra cotta office building at 709 Chestnut Street in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The Wainwright Building is considered to

Bauhaus Dessau, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weimar School and the move by loca

The AEG turbine factory was built in 1909, at Huttenstraße 12-16 in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is the best-known work of architect Peter Behrens. The 100 m long steel-framed building with 15 m tall glass windows on either s

Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [savwa]) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret with interior

The Eiffel Tower ( EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Lo

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of work

The Larkin Administration Building (a.k.a. the Larkin Building or Administration Building) was an office building at 680 Seneca Street in Buffalo, New York, United States. Constructed for the Larkin Soap Company, it was designed b

The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus-Werk) is a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, Germany, and serves as an important example of early modern architecture. Commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt who wanted a radic

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: , US: ; Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 - 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner.

The fact that Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the Commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral are among the few certainties about his life.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 - 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist.

Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental gateway that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

Marcel Lajos Breuer ( BROY-ur; May 21, 1902 - July 1, 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.

Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 - 31 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.

Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 - September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He served as a design consultant to and then Chairman of the Department of Design at the Container Corporation of America.

(June 17, 1907 - August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.

Ettore Sottsass (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttore sotˈtsas]; 14 September 1917 - 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and product designer.

A pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at

A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs. Variations were used in Roman architecture, Byzantine architectu

A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. The word "groin" refers to the edge between the intersecting vault

The Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall (2,073-foot) megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. It is currently the tallest building in China, the world's third-tallest building by height to architectural

The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London

The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Located at 400 Broad Street in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it

Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー, Tōkyō Sukaitsurī; [tò̞ó̞.kʲjó̞ó̞ (|) sɯ̥̈.kä́í.t͡sɯ̈́.ɾʲíì, tó̞ó̞.-] ), a.k.a Tokyo Sky Tree, is a broadcasting and observation tower, located in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It has been the tallest tower in Japa

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the Nati

Schloss Sanssouci (German pronunciation: [ˈsãːsusi]) is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Prussian King Frederick the Great as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. Whi

The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey is an abbey located within the city and island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, in the department of Manche. Now owned and operated as a French national monument, religious services still occur and occ

The Ise Shrine (Japanese: 伊勢神宮, Hepburn: Ise Jingū), located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami and the grain goddess Toyouke-hime. Also known simply as Jingū (神宮),

Brihadisvara Temple, called Rajarajesvaram (lit. 'Lord of Rajaraja') by its builder, and known locally as Thanjai Periya Kovil (lit. 'Thanjavur Big Temple') and Peruvudaiyar Kovil (lit. 'Temple of the great lord'), is a Shaivite H

The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Detached Palace (桂離宮, Katsura Rikyū; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.tsɯ.ɾa ɾʲiꜜ.kʲɯː]) is an Imperial residence with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. Lo

The House of Loreius Tiburtinus (more correctly the House of Octavius Quartio after its true owner) is renowned for well-preserved art, mainly in wall-paintings as well as its large gardens. It is in the Roman city of Pompeii and

Agrippa Postumus, a grandson of the Emperor Augustus, had a villa on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which was buried in the eruption of 79 AD. The villa lies within the current comune of Boscotrecase, Campania, Italy. The villa is

Hotel Attraction was a proposal by architect Antoni Gaudí for a skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 - 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who is described as one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

Frank Owen Gehry ( GAIR-ee; né Goldberg; February 28, 1929 - December 5, 2025) was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions.

Ausstellung der Städtischen Galerie in der Reithalle, Paderborn, Paderborn: Städtische Galerie in der Reithalle, Paderborn- Schloß Neuhaus, ISBN 3-929507-11-0 Johann Rasso Januarius Zick (6 February 1730 - 14 November 1797) was a German painter and architect. He is considered to be one of the main masters of the Late-Baroque.

Web Gallery of Art Antonio Gherardi (Il Reatino) (20 September 1638 - 10 May 1702) was an Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (stuccoist) of the Baroque style, active mainly in and near Rome and his native city of Rieti.

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743-4 June 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.

was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster

was an Estonian-born American architect

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was a Colombian-born Peruvian-American architect

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was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance

was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time

was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, determined to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization

was a Catalan architect and designer, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme

was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist

was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture

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is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works

is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III

was a French architect and designer

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was an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer

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was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer

was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic

is an English architect and urbanist

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was an Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician

was an Italian painter, draughtsman, architect and writer

was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada

was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer

was an Italian Baroque painter and architect

was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena (in Ancaiano, frazione of Sovicille) and died in Rome

was an Italian (Florentine) painter, illuminator, and architect

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was an Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect

was an Italian architect, Dominican Order friar, engineer and mathematician

was a Spanish Benedictine monk, painter, and architect, in the Baroque style

was an Italian artist and architect mostly active in Portugal

was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance

was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

was an ancient temple

is a fourth-century church

is a 100-story, 1,128-foot-tall (344-meter) skyscraper

is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper

is a television and radio tower

is a communications and observation tower

is a 118-story megatall skyscraper

is a 123-story, 555 metres (1,821 ft) supertall skyscraper,

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.

Phillips Exeter Academy Library is a library that serves Phillips Exeter Academy, an independent boarding school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States.

The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

The Musée d'Orsay (UK: MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: mew-ZAY -⁠, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]; English: Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of the Vatican City.

Palace of Fontainebleau ( FON-tin-bloh, US also -⁠bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.

The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo]; Italian for 'Old Palace') is the town hall of Florence, Italy.

The Royal Palace of Madrid (Spanish: Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family and is used primarily for state ceremonies.

The Temple of Bacchus is part of the Baalbek archaeological site, in Beqaa Valley region of Lebanon.

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (), comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt.

The Temple of Apollo, also known as Apollonion, (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιον, romanized: Apollṓnion) was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi.

The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Niccoline Chapel (Italian: Cappella Niccolina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.

The Galerie d'Apollon (French pronunciation: [ɡalʁi dapɔlɔ̃]) is a large room of the Louvre Palace, on the first floor of a wing known as the Petite Galerie.

The Grand Louvre was a decade-long project initiated by French President François Mitterrand in 1981 which expanded and remodelled the Louvre, both the building and the museum, by moving the French Finance Ministry, which had been located in the Louvre's northern wing since 1871, to a different location.

Anthemius of Tralles (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθέμιος ὁ Τραλλιανός, Medieval Greek: [anˈθemios o traliaˈnos], Anthémios o Trallianós; c. 474-533 x 558) was a Byzantine Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Yasmeen Lari (Urdu: یاسمین لاری; born c. 1941) is Pakistan's first female architect.

In creative partnership with her husband, Charles Eames, she was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, graphic design, textile design, film, and furniture.

is a commercial skyscraper in London

the clock tower that stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster

was a design for a grand monumental building by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin

was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930

Utzon, Jørn (Danish architect, 1918-2008)

Childs, David M. (American architect, 1941-2025)

Neutra, Richard (American architect, 1892-1970, born in Austria)

Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas (Dutch architect, designer, 1888-1964)

Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)

Wallot, Paul (German architect, 1841-1912)

Piano, Renzo (Italian architect, born 1937)

Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)

Cuypers, Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Dutch architect, 1827-1921)

Garnier, Charles (French architect, 1825-1898)

Knobelsdorff, Georg Wenceslaus von (German painter and architect, 1699-1753)

Koenig, Pierre (American architect, 1925-2004)

Venturi, Robert (American architect, 1925-2018)

Eiffel, Gustave (French architect and engineer, 1832-1923)

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Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, architect, and scenographer, 1691-1765)