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Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is a prominent contemporary architect and urbanist associated with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture...

Contemporary Theory Dutch Urbanism

9.5 Brilliant

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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano is a renowned Italian architect celebrated for innovative designs across diverse projects. His work emphasiz...

Italian Contemporary High Tech Sustainable

9.5 Brilliant

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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando is a prominent contemporary architect recognized for his profoundly simple and spiritual designs. He primaril...

Contemporary Japanese Minimal Spiritual

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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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 Canada Museum Sculptural

9.4 Excellent

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Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog is a prominent Swiss architect renowned for his innovative approach to contemporary design. He co-founded...

Swiss Contemporary Material Façade

9.4 Excellent

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Pierre de Meuron

Pierre de Meuron is a prominent Swiss architect recognized for his innovative use of materials and complex façade design...

Swiss Contemporary Material Façade

9.4 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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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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Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for timber and light-filtering buildings, including Japan National Stadium for...

Contemporary Japanese Craft Texture

8.5 Great

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Jeanne Gang

Jeanne Gang is an American architect and founder of Studio Gang, known for Chicago's Aqua Tower, completed in 2010 with...

American Contemporary Sustainable High Rise

8.3 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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Anna Heringer

Anna Heringer is a German architect noted for sustainable earthen construction, including the 2006 METI Handmade School...

German Contemporary Community Sustainable

7.9 Good

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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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Julie Snow

Julie Snow is an American architect and cofounder of Snow Kreilich Architects, the Minneapolis firm that won the 2018 AI...

American Contemporary Sustainable Modernist

7.4 Good

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Mario Cucinella

Mario Cucinella is an Italian architect focused on sustainable design; his studio co-developed TECLA, a 3D-printed clay...

Italian Contemporary Sustainable Climate

7.3 Good

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Stefano Boeri

Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urbanist known for Milan's Bosco Verticale, two tree-covered residential tower...

Italian Contemporary Sustainable Urbanism

6.7 Fair