swap_horiz Toyo Ito Alternatives

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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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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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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel is a French architect known for context-sensitive designs, including the Arab World Institute in Paris, comp...

French Contemporary Cultural Façade

9.1 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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Steven Holl

Steven Holl is an American architect known for phenomenological design, including Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ign...

American Contemporary Light Cultural

8.8 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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Liu Jiakun

Liu Jiakun is a Chinese architect from Chengdu known for civic buildings and adaptive reuse, including West Village, com...

Contemporary Cultural Material Regional

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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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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Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie is an Israeli Canadian architect noted for Habitat 67 in Montreal, a modular concrete housing project built...

Israel Contemporary Canada Cultural

8.5 Great

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Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller is an American architect who co-founded Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 1981 and helped shape New York's Hi...

American Contemporary Interdisciplinary Cultural

8.5 Great

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Ricardo Scofidio

Ricardo Scofidio was an American architect who co-founded Diller Scofidio + Renfro and shared a 1999 MacArthur fellowshi...

American Contemporary Interdisciplinary Cultural

8.4 Great

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David Adjaye

David Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect known for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and C...

Contemporary Cultural Material Civic

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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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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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a Norwegian architect and co-founder of Snøhetta, the Oslo firm behind the 2008 Oslo Opera Hous...

Contemporary Norwegian Cultural Landscape

8.1 Great

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Dominique Perrault

Dominique Perrault is a French architect noted for the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, completed in 1995 with...

French Contemporary Cultural Minimal

8.1 Great

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Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo is a Mexican architect whose 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in London made her the youngest designer in the pro...

Contemporary Cultural Minimal Mexican

8.1 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