List of Jewish American architects

This is a list of famous Jewish American architects. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

• Max Abramovitz, architect
• Dankmar Adler, architect and civil engineer, partner with Louis Sullivan in celebrated firm of Adler and Sullivan
• Gregory Ain, California architect; protege of Richard Neutra
• Armand Phillip Bartos, architect and philanthropist, best known for the Shrine of the Book, co-designed with Frederick John Kiesler, housing the gift of the State of Israel of the Dead Sea Scrolls by his father-in-law Samuel Gottesman
• Walter Curt Behrendt, German modernist architect and expert on city planning and housing
• Edward Blum and George Blum, École des Beaux-Arts-trained brothers, of Alsatian-French decent, celebrated for their terra cotta embellished, Art Nouveau Manhattan apartment buildings, ended their career with two Art Deco works [1]. Their work was catalogued in Andrew S. Dolkart and Susan Tunick's 1993 book [2], George & Edward Blum: Texture and Design in New York Apartment House Architecture.
• Marcel Breuer, modernist architect and furniture designer
• Arnold Brunner, considered the first successful American born Jewish architect in the US [3] - and a city planner as well - he is the namesake of an annual award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant by the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter
• Alan Buchsbaum, high tech architect
• Gordon Bunshaft, modernist architect, partner in firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Giorgio Cavaglieri, architectural preservationist and painter of gouaches
• Irwin Chanin, designer of Art Deco office towers and Broadway theaters, real estate developer and benefactor to his alma mater, The Cooper Union, which named its school of architecture in his honor.
• Serge Chermayeff, Grozny-born architect of Sephardic descent whose inter-war partnership with Erich Mendelsohn was lauded for bringing modernism to Britain; was also a writer, professor and co-founder of professional societies Stateside, and father of graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff
• Preston Scott Cohen, architect
• Richard Dattner, Bielsko, Poland-born recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Thomas Jefferson Award, its highest honor for public architecture
• Elizabeth Diller, partner with husband Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the first architectural firm to win the so-called "genius award," a MacArthur Prize
• Dan Dworsky, architect
• John Eberson, Romanian-born architect best known for his atmospheric movie palaces
• Leopold Eidlitz, architect
• Peter Eisenman, architect
• Sidney Eisenshtat, architect best known for modernist synagogues including the House of the Book
• Sheldon Fox, architect, co-founder Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Ulrich Franzen, architect
• James Ingo Freed, architect
• M. Paul Friedberg, landscape architect
• Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Prize (1989)
• Ofra Gelman, Architect, RedRock Design, Las Vegas, Nevada. Hospitality.
• Nir Golan, architect
• Bertrand Goldberg, architect of Chicago's Marina City Center
• Percival Goodman, urban theorist and architect who designed over 50 synagogues; brother of sociologist/author Paul Goodman
• Ezra Gordon, architect
• Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, Principal of Alexander Gorlin Architects in Manhattan, specializes in high-end residential, synagogues, master plans, and affordable and supportive housing.
• Arthur Gross, partner of Schwartz and Gross, designer of pre-WW2 Manhattan apartment buildings
• Victor Gruen, father of the shopping mall
• Lawrence Halprin, landscaper architect/educator
• Franklin D. Israel, architect
• Herman Jessor, the architect of more than 40,000, union-sponsored, publicly-assisted, cooperative housing units in New York City
• Albert Kahn, industrial architect
• Louis I. Kahn, influential, world-renown, modernist architect
• Frederick John Kiesler, Czernowitz-born theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect (see Bartos)
• A. Eugene Kohn, architect, co-founder Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Robert D. Kohn, one-time American Institute of Architects president, best known for his designs of Reform synagogues and buildings for the New York Society for Ethical Culture
• Reed Kroloff , architect/critic, former editor of Architecture, former dean of Tulane School of Architecture, director of Cranbrook Academy of Art
• Morris Lapidus, once maligned architect of "gorgeous", but now celebrated as exemplar of MiMo
• Paul László (1900-02-06 – 1993-03-27), Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries.
• Edgar M. Lazarus (1868–1939), prominent in the Portland, Oregon area for more than 45 years, best known as the architect of the Vista House
• Daniel Libeskind, architect
• John Maksai, architect
• Richard Meier, architect, Pritzker Prize (1984)
• Erich Mendelsohn, architect, co-founder of the German architectural collaborative Der Ring, later practiced in Mandatory Palestine before settling in the US in 1941
• Robert Moses, this "master builder" was the subject of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Power Broker
• Eric Owen Moss, architect
• Barbara A. Nadel [4], an architect specialized in health care and justice facilities, much in demand for her expertise on design for public and institutional building security [5]
• Richard Neutra, modernist architect
• James Polshek, architect
• Emery Roth, apprentice to Daniel Burnham and architect of classic Jazz Age New York apartment buildings and hotels, who founded firm known as the "builder's architects"
• Moshe Safdie, architect
• Taal Safdie, architect
• Stanley Saitowitz, architect and emeritus architecture professor at UC Berkeley [6]
• Lawrence Scarpa, architect
• Rudolph Schindler, Austrian-born modernist architect known for his private houses in LA.
• Denise Scott Brown, architect, city planner and partner/spouse of architect Robert Venturi
• Martha Schwartz, landscape architect
• Simon I. Schwartz, partner of Schwartz and Gross, designer of pre-WW2 Manhattan apartment buildings
• Raphael Soriano Rhodes-born architect/educator of Sephardi descent whose work epitomized Mid-Century modern
• Michael Sorkin, architectural theorist and academic with non-profit practice, currently directs the graduate program in urban design at CCNY
• Clarence Stein, urban planner, architect and writer, best known for advancing the garden city movement in the US, as evinced by his own collaborations with architect Henry Wright, Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn
• Robert A. M. Stern, architect
• Edgar Tafel, architect; Frank Lloyd Wright protege
• Stanley Tigerman, architect
• Joseph Urban, architect, set designer[7] and book illustrator
• Paul Zucker, architect/city planner in Berlin who joined the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research

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