Architects

50 architects to collect.

The architects on Archie's LifeList, in order of when they worked. Photograph one of their buildings and they join your list.

c. 2650 BCE Imhotep Step Pyramid of Djoser · Pyramid complex of Djoser, Saqqara · Enclosure wall of the Djoser complex 1st c. BCE Vitruvius De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture) · Basilica at Fano · Firmitas, utilitas, venustas 5th c. BCE Callicrates Parthenon (with Ictinus) · Temple of Athena Nike · Long Walls of Athens 6th c. Isidore of Miletus Hagia Sophia (with Anthemius of Tralles) · Compilation of the works of Archimedes · Commentary on Hero of Alexandria's vaulting c. 474–558 Anthemius of Tralles Hagia Sophia (with Isidore of Miletus) · On Burning Mirrors · Flood defenses at Dara 1377–1446 Filippo Brunelleschi Dome of Florence Cathedral · Ospedale degli Innocenti · Pazzi Chapel 1404–1472 Leon Battista Alberti Sant'Andrea, Mantua · Santa Maria Novella facade · Palazzo Rucellai 1444–1514 Donato Bramante Tempietto, Rome · St. Peter's Basilica (original plan) · Santa Maria presso San Satiro 1475–1564 Michelangelo Dome of St. Peter's Basilica · Laurentian Library · Piazza del Campidoglio 1508–1580 Andrea Palladio Villa Rotonda · Basilica Palladiana · San Giorgio Maggiore 1598–1680 Gian Lorenzo Bernini St. Peter's Square colonnade · Baldacchino of St. Peter's · Sant'Andrea al Quirinale 1599–1667 Francesco Borromini San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane · Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza · Palazzo Spada colonnade 1632–1723 Christopher Wren St Paul's Cathedral · City of London churches · Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich 1728–1792 Robert Adam Kedleston Hall · Syon House · Kenwood House 1752–1835 John Nash Regent Street · Regent's Park terraces · Royal Pavilion, Brighton 1781–1841 Karl Friedrich Schinkel Altes Museum · Konzerthaus Berlin · Neue Wache 1814–1879 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Notre-Dame de Paris restoration · Carcassonne restoration · Château de Pierrefonds 1825–1898 Charles Garnier Palais Garnier · Monte Carlo Casino (Salle Garnier) · Nice Observatory 1838–1886 Henry Hobson Richardson Trinity Church, Boston · Allegheny County Courthouse · Marshall Field Wholesale Store 1841–1918 Otto Wagner Austrian Postal Savings Bank · Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station · Majolikahaus 1852–1926 Antoni Gaudí Sagrada Família · Casa Batlló · Park Güell 1856–1924 Louis Sullivan Wainwright Building · Guaranty Building · Carson Pirie Scott store 1861–1947 Victor Horta Hôtel Tassel · Horta Museum · Hôtel Solvay 1867–1959 Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Robie House 1868–1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art · Hill House · Willow Tearooms 1870–1933 Adolf Loos Looshaus, Vienna · Villa Müller, Prague · Ornament and Crime 1883–1969 Walter Gropius Bauhaus Building, Dessau · Fagus Factory · Gropius House 1886–1969 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion · Seagram Building · Farnsworth House 1887–1965 Le Corbusier Villa Savoye · Unité d'Habitation · Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp 1892–1970 Richard Neutra Lovell Health House · Kaufmann Desert House · VDL Research House 1895–1983 Buckminster Fuller Geodesic dome · Montreal Biosphère · Dymaxion House 1898–1976 Alvar Aalto Paimio Sanatorium · Villa Mairea · Viipuri Library 1901–1974 Louis Kahn Salk Institute · Kimbell Art Museum · National Assembly Building, Dhaka 1906–2005 Philip Johnson Glass House · AT&T Building (550 Madison Avenue) · Seagram Building (with Mies van der Rohe) 1907–2012 Oscar Niemeyer National Congress of Brazil · Cathedral of Brasília · Pampulha Modern Ensemble 1910–1961 Eero Saarinen Gateway Arch · TWA Flight Center · Dulles International Airport 1913–2005 Kenzo Tange Yoyogi National Gymnasium · Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park · St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo 1917–2019 I.M. Pei Louvre Pyramid · East Building, National Gallery of Art · Bank of China Tower 1925–2018 Robert Venturi Vanna Venturi House · Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture · Learning from Las Vegas 1929-2025 Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum Bilbao · Walt Disney Concert Hall · Dancing House b. 1931 Denise Scott Brown Learning from Las Vegas · Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery · Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture 1933–2021 Richard Rogers Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano) · Lloyd's building · Millennium Dome 1934–2015 Michael Graves Portland Building · Humana Building · Team Disney Building, Burbank b. 1935 Norman Foster 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin) · Reichstag dome · HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong b. 1937 Renzo Piano Centre Pompidou (with Richard Rogers) · The Shard · Menil Collection b. 1941 Tadao Ando Church of the Light · Row House in Sumiyoshi · Chichu Art Museum b. 1944 Rem Koolhaas Seattle Central Library · CCTV Headquarters · Casa da Música 1950–2016 Zaha Hadid Heydar Aliyev Center · MAXXI · London Aquatics Centre b. 1951 Santiago Calatrava City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia · The Oculus (World Trade Center Transportation Hub) · Milwaukee Art Museum Quadracci Pavilion b. 1974 Bjarke Ingels CopenHill · VIA 57 West · 8 House