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Born October 25, 1928 • Vitória • Brazil
Died May 23, 2021 (aged 92) • São Paulo • Brazil
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2016) • Pritzker Prize (2006)
Movement / Style Modernism
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
French 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
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
German architect and painter
Northampton
Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
Webb, Philip Speakman: Red House
Philip Speakman Webb
British architect
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Dutch architect
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
British architect
Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith
McIntire, Samuel: Derby Summer House
Samuel McIntire
American architect and craftsman
Fumihiko Maki
Japanese architect
Henning Larsen
Danish architect
Lina Bo Bardi: Art Museum of São Paulo
Lina Bo Bardi
Brazilian architect and industrial designer
Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect

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