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Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier was a pivotal 20th-century architect born in Switzerland but working across France. His designs, including...

Modernist 20TH Century Urbanism Swiss French

9.7 Brilliant

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a prominent 20th-century architect of German-American heritage. He is recognized for his pi...

Glass Minimal Modernist 20TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

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Luis Barragán

Luis Barragán (1902-1983) was a prominent Mexican architect whose work significantly influenced modernist design. He is...

Modernist 20TH Century Landscape Mexican

9.6 Brilliant

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Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto was a prominent 20th-century Finnish architect celebrated for his humanist approach to modernist design. His...

Wood Modernist 20TH Century Humanist

9.5 Brilliant

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Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was a pivotal 20th-century Japanese architect renowned for developing the Metabolist movement. He blended mo...

Japanese Modernist 20TH Century Civic

9.5 Brilliant

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Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect noted for monumental modern works such as the Salk Institute in Calif...

American Modernist 20TH Century Monumental

9.4 Excellent

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Richard Neutra

Richard Neutra was an Austrian American modernist architect, noted for California houses such as the 1929 Lovell Health...

California Modernist 20TH Century Residential

9.3 Excellent

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Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect noted for precise modern interventions in historic sites, including Verona's Caste...

Italian Craft Modernist 20TH Century

9.3 Excellent

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Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer was a Brazilian modernist architect who designed major civic buildings for Brasilia, inaugurated as Brazi...

Modernist 20TH Century Concrete Brazilian

9.2 Excellent

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Arata Isozaki

Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect whose global postmodern work included MOCA Los Angeles; he won the 2019 Pritzker...

Cultural Japanese 20TH Century Postmodern

9.2 Excellent

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Balkrishna Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi was an Indian architect shaped by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn; in 2018 he became India's first Pritzker...

Education Indian Modernist 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian American Bauhaus architect and designer, noted for the 1925 Wassily Chair and the Whitney...

Modernist 20TH Century Brutalist Furniture

9.2 Excellent

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Jørn Utzon

Jørn Utzon was a Danish architect best known for designing the Sydney Opera House, whose competition scheme was selected...

Organic Danish Modernist 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Gunnar Asplund

Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, co-designer of Stockholm Woodland Cemetery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site complet...

Modernist 20TH Century Swedish Classicist

9.2 Excellent

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Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi was an Italian-born Brazilian architect, known for the 1968 MASP building in Sao Paulo and socially engage...

Social Cultural Modernist 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius was a German architect who founded the Bauhaus in 1919, linking modern design, craft, and industrial prod...

German Education Modernist 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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Fazlur Rahman Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi American structural engineer at SOM, noted for tube systems used in Chicago's John...

Engineering 20TH Century Structural Skyscraper

8.8 Great

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Gottfried Böhm

Gottfried Böhm was a German architect, winner of the 1986 Pritzker Prize, known for sculptural concrete churches such as...

German 20TH Century Expressionist Concrete

8.6 Great

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Pier Luigi Nervi

Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer and architect known for reinforced-concrete shell structures, including Rome's...

Italian Engineering 20TH Century Structural

8.6 Great

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Egon Eiermann

Egon Eiermann was a German modernist architect, noted for the 1963 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin and postwar...

German Corporate Modernist 20TH Century

8.1 Great