"architect" | Definition and Related Words

architect

Noun

Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) (synset 109824898)
is a type of: creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
subtypes:
- landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist - someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively
- ithiel town, town - United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)
specific instances:
- aalto, alvar aalto, hugo alvar henrik aalto - Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976)
- adam, robert adam - Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
- alberti, leon battista alberti - Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)
- behrens, peter behrens - German architect known for his simple utilitarian factory buildings (1868-1940)
- berlage, hendrik petrus berlage - Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934)
- bernini, giovanni lorenzo bernini - Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)
- bramante, donato bramante, donato d'agnolo bramante - great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514)
- breuer, marcel lajos breuer - United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981)
- brunelleschi, filippo brunelleschi - Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446)
- bullfinch, charles bullfinch - United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844)
- burnham, daniel hudson burnham - United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912)
- butterfield, william butterfield - English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900)
- carrere, john merven carrere - United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911)
- chambers, sir william chambers, william chambers - English architect (1723-1796)
- de l'orme, delorme, philibert de l'orme, philibert delorme - French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570)
- buckminster fuller, fuller, r. buckminster fuller, richard buckminster fuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
- garnier, jean louis charles garnier - French architect (1825-1898)
- antonio gaudi, antonio gaudi i cornet, gaudi, gaudi i cornet - Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926)
- cass gilbert, gilbert - United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
- giotto, giotto di bondone - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
- gropius, walter gropius - United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969)
- hastings, thomas hastings - United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
- hoffmann, josef hoffmann - Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956)
- horta, victor horta - Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947)
- hunt, richard morris hunt - United States architect (1827-1895)
- jenny, william le baron jenny - United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
- inigo jones, jones - one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
- kahn, louis isadore kahn - United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974)
- henri labrouste, labrouste - French architect who was among the first to use metal construction successfully (1801-1875)
- benjamin henry latrobe, latrobe - United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820)
- charles edouard jeanneret, le corbusier - French architect (born in Switzerland) (1887-1965)
- charles l'enfant, l'enfant, pierre charles l'enfant - United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825)
- da vinci, leonardo, leonardo da vinci - Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
- lin, maya lin - United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
- adolf loos, loos - Austrian architect (1870-1933)
- lutyens, sir edwin landseer luytens, sir edwin lutyens - English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
- francois mansart, mansart - French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666)
- charles follen mckim, mckim - United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909)
- erich mendelsohn, mendelsohn - German architect who migrated to Palestine in 1937 (1887-1953)
- michelangelo, michelangelo buonarroti - Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)
- ludwig mies van der rohe, mies van der rohe - United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
- mills, robert mills - United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)
- nervi, pier luigi nervi - Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979)
- andrea palladio, palladio - highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580)
- joseph paxton, paxton, sir joseph paxton - English architect (1801-1865)
- i. m. pei, ieoh ming pei, pei - United States architect (born in China in 1917)
- augustus welby northmore pugin, pugin - English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852)
- henry hobson richardson, richardson - United States architect (1838-1886)
- eero saarinen, saarinen - United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961)
- eliel saarinen, saarinen - Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950)
- jacques germain soufflot, soufflot - French architect (1713-1780)
- albert speer, speer - German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981)
- edward durell stone, stone - United States architect (1902-1978)
- strickland, william strickland - United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854)
- louis henri sullivan, louis henry sullivan, louis sullivan, sullivan - United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
- kenzo tange, tange - Japanese architect (born in 1913)
- thornton, william thornton - American architect (1759-1828)
- richard upjohn, upjohn - United States architect (born in England) (1802-1878)
- john vanbrugh, sir john vanbrigh, vanbrugh - English architect (1664-1726)
- henri clemens van de velde, henri van de velde, van de velde - Belgian architect (1863-1957)
- robert charles venturi, robert venturi, venturi - United States architect (born in 1925)
- otto wagner, wagner - Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)
- stanford white, white - United States architect (1853-1906)
- sir christopher wren, wren - English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)
- frank lloyd wright, wright - influential United States architect (1869-1959)
- james wyatt, wyatt - English architect (1746-1813)
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