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Born April 8, 1901 • Nancy • France
Died March 23, 1984 (aged 82) • Nancy • France

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American architect
Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
Hector Guimard
French architect
Konrad Wachsmann
American architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Germain Boffrand
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Les Invalides, Paris
Libéral Bruant
French architect
Cret, Paul Phillippe: Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
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American architect
Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith
Labrouste, Henri: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Henri Labrouste
French architect
Gaetana Aulenti
Italian architect
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect

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