Filippo Brunelleschi, the father of Renaissance architecture
Qavam al-Din Shirazi, architect to the House of Tamerlane
Giuliano da Sangallo, wood sculptor, architect and student of antiquity
Sinan, master architect of the Ottoman Empire
Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor and builder
Christopher Wren, scientist. architect and engineer
Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, foremost military engineer of the 17th century
Thomas Telford, innovator of cast-iron bridge design
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, genius and engineer
James Bogardus, inventor of cast-iron architecture
Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener and architect
Victor Baltard, municipal architect of Paris
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, visionary railway engineer and ship designer
A. W. N. Pugin, realist and revolutionary
Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, gothic as constructive will
John Fowler, renowned developer of urban railways
Giuseppe Mengoni, architect of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
William el Baron Jenney, developed Chicago's distinctive skyscrapers
Francois Hennebique, symbol of reinforced concrete
Antoni Gaudi, architect-craftsman with a unique creative style
Louis H. Sullivan, ornamentalist, skyscraper designer and advocate of an "American" style
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of the space within
Auguste Perret, an aesthetic language and doctrine for concrete construction
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last great inventor of form
Le Corbusier, in concrete or stone, wood or metal?
Konstantin Melnikov, leap into the unknown
Pier Luigi Nervi, transfigurations of an engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller, design for the future
Ove Arup, the outsider and the art of the impossible
Louis K. Kahn, architect of the poetics of action and construction
Jean Prouve, the constructive imagination
Oscar Niemeyer, radical critic of Modernist orthodoxies
Eero Saarinen, exuberance and technological innovation
Frei Otto, innovator of tensile and membrane structures
Fran Gehry, designer of expressively iconic buildings
Kenzo Tange, the architect of megastructures
Norman Foster, invention and innovation in structure and materials
Santiago Calatrava, a universal designer
Kengo Kuma, an architecture of materiality and immateriality.
