Architects

Including town planners and landscape architects.

See also Designers.

Q: Who designed ...	A:
Harewood House, Osterley Park, Syon House, Kenwood House (etc.); Pulteney Bridge (Bath)		Robert Adam
Manchester Art Gallery; The Athaneum, Manchester (now part of the Art Gallery); Palace of Westminster (a.k.a. the Houses of Parliament – assisted by A. W. N. Pugin); Highclere Castle ("Downton Abbey")		Sir Charles Barry
London's sewer system (19th century)		Joseph Bazalgette
Westminster Cathedral		John Bentley
UNESCO building, Paris (Hungarian–born American)		Marcel Lajos Breuer
Gardens of Blenheim Palace		'Capability' Brown
Florence: Cathedral dome, Pazzi Chapel (St. Croce), St. Lorenzo		Filipo Brunelleschi
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Rouchamp (Swiss architect): "a house is a machine for living in"		Le Corbusier
The Mansion House (London – commissioned 1737)		George Dance the Elder
Born Stockport, 1935: works include The Gherkin (30 St. Mary Axe, London – completed 2003) and the new Wembley Stadium (in collaboration with HOK Sport, 2007)		Norman Foster
Sagrada Familia (massive church in Barcelona: construction began 1882, completion scheduled for 2026 – 100 years after the architect's death); also several other buidings (etc.) in Barcelona, including Park Güell		Antoni Gaudi
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997 – clad in titanium); Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2003)		Frank Gehry
Won a competition in 1960 to design Liverpool's new Catholic cathedral		Frederick Gibberd
US architect who won the competition to plan the city of Canberra (assisted by his wife Marion)		Walter B. Griffin
Founder of the Bauhaus school (Germany, 1919)		Walter Gropius
Born Liverpool, 1943: fought slum clearances in Macclesfield, 1974 – considered the pioneer of 'Community Architecture'		Rod Hackney
Baghdad–born British architect: first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize; described by The Guardian as "Queen of the curve"; designs include the Aquatic Centre for the 2012 London Olympics; suffered a fatal heart attack in 2016, aged 65		Zaha Hadid
Birmingham Town Hall (modelled on the Temple of Castor & Pollux, Rome)		Joseph Hansom
Euston Station (1837), Goldsmiths' Hall		Philip Hardwick
Planner of Paris, 1853–68		Georges Eugene, Baron Haussmann
Assistant architect on St. Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, working with Wren and Vanbrugh; designed the west towers of Westminster Abbey, which however were not completed until after his death in 1736		Nicholas Hawksmoor
Mound Stand (Lord's); Glyndebourne Opera House (husband & wife)		Michael & Patty Hopkins
The Queen's House, Greenwich; Covent Garden; the Banqueting House, Whitehall		Inigo Jones
Horse Guards building; Royal Mews Berkeley Square		William Kent
Polish–American architect (born Łódź, 1946; family moved to New York 1959): works include the Imperial War Museum North, Manchester (2002); won the competition to be the "master planner" for the redesign of the World Trade Centre (2003)		Daniel Liebeskind
Castle Drogo, Devon (1911–30); The Cenotaph, Whitehall (erected 1920); Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, Picardy, France (1928–32); Midland Bank building, Manchester (1935); British Embassy in Washington, DC (1955–61); largely responsible for the design of New Delhi, including the main government buildings (1911–31)also designed a Roman Catholic cathedral for Liverpool, but work was discontinued after WWII due to lack of funds (see Frederick Gibberd)		Sir Edwin Lutyens
Glasgow School of Art (1897–1909)		Charles R. Mackintosh
Dome of St. Peter's, Rome		Michelangelo
Seagram Building, New York – “one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism” (1957 – German–born architect)		Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Buckingham Palace (remodelling 1825–35, including Marble Arch – completed by Edward Blore following his dismissal); Regent's Park, Regent Street, Trafalgar Square; Brighton Royal Pavilion		John Nash
Brazilian architect, 1907–2012: best known for his designs for civic buildings for Brasília; also one of the collaborators on the UN Headquarters in New York; considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture		Oscar Niemeyer
Crystal Palace (for the Great Exhibition, 1851); Birkenhead Park, Wirral (now in Merseyside) – opened in 1847, and generally acknowledged (according to Wikipedia) to be the world's first publicly–funded civic park		Sir Joseph Paxton
Italian architect (born Genoa 1937): designer of The Shard (London, completed 2012); also collaborated with Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Centre (Paris, completed 1977)		Renzo Piano
British–Italian architect (born Florence, 1933) – works (by him or his company) include the Pompidou Centre (Paris, completed 1977, in collaboration with Renzo Piano), Lloyd's Building (London, 1986), London's Millennium Dome (1999), the European Court of Human Rights building (Strasbourg, 1994), new Terminal 4 at Madrid–Barajas Airport (2004), Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport (2008), the Senedd (National Assembly building), Cardiff (2006)		Richard Rogers
Midland Grand Hotel (now known as St. Pancras Chambers), the frontage of St. Pancras Station (1865); Albert Memorial		Sir George Gilbert Scott
Battersea Power Station; GPO telephone box; Liverpool Anglican cathedral; Cambridge University library; new Bodleian Library, Oxford; new Waterloo Bridge (1880–1960: grandson of Sir George)		Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Coventry Cathedral; the British pavilion at Expo '67, Montreal; the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings (popular name: The Beehive)		Sir Basil Spence
Sydney Opera House – Danish architect, won a competition for it in 1956 (d. 2008)		Jørn Utzon
Castle Howard, Blenheim Palace		Sir John Vanbrugh
Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery (London, 1991) – born Philadelphia, 1925		Robert Venturi
Manchester Town Hall, and the Natural History Museum (London)		Alfred Waterhouse
Portmeirion		Clough Williams–Ellis
Painter, engineer, and merchant (1644–1703): designed the first Eddystone lighthouse (completed in 1698)		Henry Winstanley
Royal Crescent (etc.), Bath – built by his son of the same name		John Wood
The Royal Exchange (London); Ashmolean Museum (Oxford); Royal Hospital, Chelsea; St. Paul's Cathedral, London		Sir Christopher Wren
Guggenheim Museum (New York – commissioned 1943, completed 1959); Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1916)		Frank Lloyd Wright

The best–known work of the Irish–born architect James Hoban (completed in 1800)

The White House (Washington, DC)

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