Best Architect

Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer, famed for the dome of Florence Cathedral, completed in 1436.

Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect whose Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, begun in 1882, became a defining work of Catalan Modernisme.

Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French modernist architect whose 1923 book Toward an Architecture and Villa Savoye helped define 20th-century urbanism.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German American architect noted for the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion and minimalist steel-and-glass modernism.

Luis Barragan was a Mexican architect and 1980 Pritzker Prize laureate, known for Casa Barragan, built in Mexico City in 1948.

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

Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect known for minimalist concrete buildings, including the Church of the Light in Osaka, completed in 1989.

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

Donato Bramante was an Italian Renaissance architect, noted for designing the Tempietto in Rome and the initial 1506 plan for St. Peter's Basilica.

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect whose works include the 1977 Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London, completed in 2012.

Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer known for humane modernism, including Finlandia Hall in Helsinki and bentwood furniture.

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

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

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian Baroque architect and sculptor, designer of St. Peter's Square in Rome, begun in 1656.

Frank Gehry is a Canadian American architect known for sculptural forms, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, opened in 1997.

Louis Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect noted for monumental modern works such as the Salk Institute in California, begun in 1959.

Francesco Borromini was an Italian Baroque architect, known for complex geometries in Roman churches such as San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.

S. R. Crown Hall is a 1956 Illinois Institute of Technology building in Chicago by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, noted for its column-free steel frame.

Norman Foster is a British architect known for high-tech architecture, including London's 30 St Mary Axe, completed in 2003.

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

Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect noted for precise modern interventions in historic sites, including Verona's Castelvecchio Museum, restored from the late 1950s.

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

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

Jørn Utzon was a Danish architect best known for designing the Sydney Opera House, whose competition scheme was selected in Australia in 1957.

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

Oscar Niemeyer was a Brazilian modernist architect who designed major civic buildings for Brasilia, inaugurated as Brazil's capital in 1960.

Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, co-designer of Stockholm Woodland Cemetery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site completed with Sigurd Lewerentz.

Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian American Bauhaus architect and designer, noted for the 1925 Wassily Chair and the Whitney Museum building in New York.

Geoffrey Bawa was a Sri Lankan architect associated with tropical modernism; his Lunuganga estate became a key laboratory for his ideas.