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Jones, Owen: The Grammar of Ornament
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Born February 15, 1809 • London • England
Died April 19, 1874 (aged 65)
Subjects Of Study motif • Islamic arts • design

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Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
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Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
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Philip Speakman Webb
British architect
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
British architect
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
American architect
Andrés Duany
American architect
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
Eero Saarinen in a womb chair
Eero Saarinen
American architect
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard
American architect and designer
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Konrad Wachsmann
American architect
Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
German architect and painter

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