List of architects
The following is a list of famous architects - well known individuals with a large body of published work.
- (Note: Please write a brief stub article when adding a new name to the list)
See also: List of architecture firms and List of emerging architects.
Early architects
- Abbot Suger
- Anthemius of Tralles
- Apollodorus of Damascus
- Iktinos
- Imhotep
- Isidore of Miletus
- Kallikrates
- Lu Ban (鲁班)
- Marcus Agrippa
- Mnesicles
- Senemut
- Vitruvius
- Yu Hao
13th century architects
- Renaud de Cormont
- Thomas de Cormont
- Villard de Honnecourt
- Jean de Loup
- Robert de Luzarches
- Jean d'Orbais
- Gaucher de Reims
- Bernard de Soisons
14th century architects
- Cristoforo da Bolzano
- Jacopo Celega
- Pier Paolo Celega
- Frà Giovanni degli Eremitani
- Giotto di Bondone
- Peter Parler
15th century architects
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Donato Bramante
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Annibale Maggi detto Da Bassano
- Michelozzo Michelozzi
- Jean Texier
- Jacob van Thienen
16th century architects
- Galeazzo Alessi
- Bartolomeo Ammanati
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Juan de Herrera
- Philibert de l'Orme
- Hans Hendrik van Paesschen
- Andrea Palladio
- Antonio da Sangallo
- Michele Sammicheli
- Raffaello Santi (Raphael)
- Vincenzo Scamozzi
- Koca Mimar Sinan Agha
- Giorgio Vasari
- Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
17th century architects
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Francesco Borromini
- Pietro da Cortona
- Guarino Guarini
- Inigo Jones
- Louis le Vau
- Baldassarre Longhena
- Carlo Maderno
- Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
- Carlo Rainaldi
- John Webb
- Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham
- Christopher Wren
18th century architects
19th century architects
20th century architects
21st century architects
Mythological/Fictional Architects
- Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks' character in Sleepless in Seattle)
- Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox's character with a ghostbusting business in Frighteners).
- Mike Brady (father of The Brady Bunch)
- Costanza (Jason Alexander's character in "Seinfeld". He always wanted to pretend to be an architect. Jerry remarked: "I don't know; I don't see architecture coming from you."
- Daedalus
- "David" ("deliberately-noncontextual" boyfriend/architect in Hannah and Her Sisters)
- Phillip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes' character in Tempest (1982 film))
- Bloody Stupid Johnson
- Michael Newman (Adam Sandler's character as an overworked architect in Click
- Nimrod
- Wilbur Post (owner of Mr. Ed)
- Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton's character in White Noise, an architect who heard noises)
- Howard Roark, protagonist in The Fountainhead.
- Halvard Solness, the middle-aged protagonist in Henrick Ibsen's play The Master Builder.
- Ivo Shandor, from the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
- Quintus Teal, built a house shaped like a tesseract, in "—And He Built a Crooked House—" by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Vivasvat
- Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry's character in Fools Rush In, a hot-shot Ford Mustang-renting NY architect who oversaw construction of a building in Las Vegas)
Lists of architects by country
- List of Australian architects
- List of Austrian architects
- List of Belgian architects
- List of Brazilian architects
- List of Canadian architects
- List of Croatian architects
- List of Dutch architects
- List of Egyptian architects
- List of Estonian architects
- List of Finnish architects
- List of Filipino architects
- List of French architects
- List of German architects
- List of Hungarian architects
- List of Indian architects
- List of Indonesian architects
- List of Iranian architects
- List of Irish architects
- List of Italian architects
- List of Japanese architects
- List of Mexican architects
- List of Norwegian architects
- List of Pakistani architects
- List of Portuguese architects
- List of Puertorican architects
- See Spanish architecture
- List of Romanian architects
- List of Russian architects
- List of Slovenian architects
- List of Swedish architects
- List of Spanish architects
- List of Turkish architects
- List of United States architects
References
- Steele, James Architecture Today Phaidon Press, (1997), ISBN 0-7148-3617-6
- Russian architects directory