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Also Known As Peter David Eisenman
Born August 12, 1932 (age 92) • Newark • New Jersey
Notable Works Wexner Center for the Arts
Movement / Style New York Five

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Bertrand Goldberg
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect
Rudolph, Paul: Orange County Government Center
Paul Rudolph
American architect
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian-American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Hayden, Sophia: Woman's Building
Sophia Hayden
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Cram, Ralph Adams
Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
American engineer and architect
Frederick John Kiesler
American architect and sculptor

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