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Born October 26, 1909 • Paris • France
Died August 11, 1964 (aged 54) • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
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Le Corbusier
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
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Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
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Marcel Breuer
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Jane Drew
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Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
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Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
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Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
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I.M. Pei
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