swap_horiz Kengo Kuma Alternatives

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Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect and theorist whose firm OMA designed the 2004 Seattle Central Library and influential...

Contemporary Theory Dutch Urbanism

9.5 Brilliant

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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect whose works include the 1977 Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London, compl...

Italian Contemporary High Tech Sustainable

9.5 Brilliant

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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect known for minimalist concrete buildings, including the Church of the Light in Osaka,...

Contemporary Japanese Minimal Spiritual

9.5 Brilliant

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Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was a Japanese architect who fused modernism with Japanese forms; his 1964 Yoyogi National Gymnasium became...

Japanese Modernist 20TH Century Civic

9.5 Brilliant

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Norman Foster

Norman Foster is a British architect known for high-tech architecture, including London's 30 St Mary Axe, completed in 2...

Contemporary Corporate High Tech Sustainable

9.4 Excellent

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Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry is a Canadian American architect known for sculptural forms, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain...

Contemporary Museum Sculptural Deconstructivist

9.4 Excellent

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Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog is a Swiss architect who co-founded Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and shared the 2001 Pritzker Prize with P...

Swiss Contemporary Material Façade

9.4 Excellent

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Pierre de Meuron

Pierre de Meuron is a Swiss architect who co-founded Herzog & de Meuron, the firm behind Tate Modern and Beijing Nationa...

Swiss Contemporary Material Façade

9.4 Excellent

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Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza is a Portuguese architect from Porto, awarded the 1992 Pritzker Prize for precise modernist works such as th...

Contemporary Minimal Contextual Portuguese

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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Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect noted for fluid, technology-aware design, including Sendai Mediatheque, completed in Ja...

Lightweight Contemporary Cultural Japanese

9.0 Excellent

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Kazuyo Sejima

Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and SANAA co-founder who won the 2010 Pritzker Prize with Ryue Nishizawa.

Contemporary Transparent Japanese Minimal

9.0 Excellent

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Wang Shu

Wang Shu is a Chinese architect and cofounder of Amateur Architecture Studio; in 2012 he became China's first Pritzker P...

Contemporary Craft Regional Chinese

8.9 Great

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Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa is a Japanese architect and SANAA co-founder who shared the 2010 Pritzker Prize for precise, light-filled...

Contemporary Transparent Japanese Minimal

8.7 Great

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Riken Yamamoto

Riken Yamamoto is a Japanese architect known for housing and civic projects that link private and public life; he won th...

Contemporary Community Japanese Institutional

8.7 Great

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Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect known for paper-tube structures and disaster relief shelters; he won the 2014 Pritzk...

Contemporary Sustainable Japanese Humanitarian

8.6 Great

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Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect known for porous, nature-like structures, including the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pav...

Lightweight Contemporary Japanese Experimental

8.2 Great

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Bijoy Jain

Bijoy Jain is an Indian architect and founder of Studio Mumbai, known for craft-based buildings using local materials an...

Contemporary Indian Craft Material

8.2 Great

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Jun Aoki

Jun Aoki is a Japanese architect known for precise commercial and cultural buildings, including the Aomori Museum of Art...

Contemporary Retail Cultural Japanese

7.6 Good

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Alison Brooks

Alison Brooks is a Canadian-born British architect, winner of the 2008 Stirling Prize as part of the Accordia housing de...

Contemporary British Timber Civic

7.4 Good