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Born June 1, 1941 (age 83) • Seoul • South Korea
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2010) • Venice Biennale (2002)

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Museum of Modern Art
Yoshio Taniguchi
Japanese architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect
Maekawa Kunio
Japanese architect
Tange Kenzo: Kagawa prefectural office
Tange Kenzō
Japanese architect
Bertrand Goldberg
American 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
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
American architect
Bacchus
Jacopo Sansovino
Italian sculptor
Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect

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