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Born May 9, 1909 • Buffalo • New York
Died August 6, 1990 (aged 81) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Pritzker Prize (1988)
Movement / Style International Style

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The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., designed by Henry Bacon, 1911.
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I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Fazlur Khan in the late 1970s
Fazlur Khan
American engineer
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
American engineer and architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
Cret, Paul Phillippe: Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
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Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
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Richard Meier: Atheneum
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Affonso Reidy
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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
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