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Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and theorist whose 1966 book The Architecture of the City influenced neo-rationalist...

Italian Theory Postmodern Rationalist

8.7 Great

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Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown is a Zambian-born architect and planner whose 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas helped redirect postm...

American Theory Planning Postmodern

8.3 Great

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Christian de Portzamparc

Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urbanist, winner of the 1994 Pritzker Prize and designer of the Cité...

French Contemporary Cultural Postmodern

8.3 Great

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Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is an American architect and theorist associated with deconstructivism, including Berlin's 2005 Memorial...

American Contemporary Academic Theory

8.2 Great

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Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl is a Danish architect and urbanist whose 1971 book Life Between Buildings shaped human scale planning and publi...

Danish Contemporary Planning Public Space

8.1 Great

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Charles Renfro

Charles Renfro is an American architect and partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York studio behind the High Lin...

American Contemporary Cultural Urbanism

8.0 Great

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Bernard Tschumi

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Switzerland Theory France Cultural

7.9 Good

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Alberto Kalach

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Contemporary Library Landscape Mexican

7.9 Good

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Yung Ho Chang

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Contemporary Education Chinese Urbanism

7.8 Good

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Winy Maas

Winy Maas is a Dutch architect and urbanist who co-founded MVRDV in Rotterdam in 1993, known for experimental housing an...

Contemporary Experimental Dutch Urbanism

7.8 Good

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Valerio Olgiati

Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect known for austere concrete works including the School Building in Paspels and the Y...

Swiss Contemporary Theory Minimal

7.7 Good

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Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect who co-founded UNStudio in 1988 and designed the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, comple...

Contemporary Infrastructure Digital Dutch

7.7 Good

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Francine Houben

Francine Houben is a Dutch architect who co-founded Mecanoo in Delft in 1984, noted for projects such as the Library of...

Education Library Dutch Urbanism

7.7 Good

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Kunlé Adeyemi

Kunlé Adeyemi is a Nigerian architect and founder of NLÉ, known for Makoko Floating School, a 2013 prototype for waterfr...

Water Contemporary Urbanism Nigerian

7.6 Good

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Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman is a British Israeli architect who founded Forensic Architecture in 2010 to investigate rights abuses throu...

Israel Contemporary Research Theory

7.5 Good

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Neutelings Riedijk

Neutelings Riedijk is a Dutch architecture office founded in Rotterdam in 1987, noted for the MAS museum in Antwerp and...

Contemporary Cultural Façade Dutch

7.5 Good

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Jacob van Rijs

Jacob van Rijs is a Dutch architect who co-founded MVRDV in 1993 and worked on projects such as the Dutch Pavilion at Ex...

Contemporary Experimental Dutch Urbanism

7.3 Good

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Nathalie de Vries

Nathalie de Vries is a Dutch architect and co-founder of MVRDV, the Rotterdam studio established in 1993 with Maas and V...

Contemporary Dutch Urbanism Housing

7.3 Good

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Mokena Makeka

Mokena Makeka is a South African architect whose Cape Town Station upgrade improved circulation and security before the...

Contemporary South African African Urbanism

6.9 Fair

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Santiago Cirugeda

Santiago Cirugeda is a Spanish architect known for Recetas Urbanas, a practice that uses legal loopholes and self-build...

Contemporary Spanish Social Participatory

6.8 Fair