International Masters of Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect known for his prairie style residential designs that promote comfort, convenience, and spaciousness.

Frank Gehry

American architect who treats each commission as a sculptural object and is known for his deconstructivist architecture.

Le Corbusier

Swiss architect and city planner who combines functionalism with bold, sculptural expressionism in his designs.

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi-born British architect known for her deconstructivist architecture characterized by fragmentation, movement, and instability.

Norman Foster

British architect known for his sleek modern buildings made of steel and glass.

Mies Van Der Rohe

German-born American architect known for his elegant simplicity and use of glass curtain-wall facades in high-rise buildings.

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish architect known for his fusion of art, engineering, and nature in his designs, often incorporating organic forms.

Louis Kahn

American architect known for his powerful, massive forms and combination of servant-served typology with inspiration from classical and medieval architecture.

Renzo Piano

Italian architect known for his high-tech public spaces and incorporation of technological and thematic concepts.

Philip Johnson

American architect known for his use of glass and his contributions to both the International style and postmodernist architecture.

Oscar Niemeyer

Brazilian architect known for his freeform, flowing lines and his goal to give beauty to the world.

Antoni Gaudi

Catalan architect known for his freedom of form, voluptuous color and texture, and organic unity in his buildings.

Ieoh Ming Pei

Chinese-born American architect known for his large, elegantly designed urban buildings and complexes.

Eero Saarinen

Finnish-born American architect known for his neo-futuristic style and dramatically different designs.

Rem Koolhaas

Dutch architect known for his embrace of modernity and utilization of the best technology and materials for each project.

Jean Nouvel

French architect known for creating buildings that fit the context, sometimes contrasting with the environment.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

American engineer, architect, and futurist known for developing the geodesic dome.

Louis Sullivan

American architect known as the spiritual father of modern American architecture and for his early skyscraper designs.

Cesar Pelli

Argentine-born American architect known for his lightweight, glass-skinned buildings with a tent-like appearance.

Walter Gropius

German-American architect and educator known for his intellectual solutions to larger social problems and his role in the development of modern architecture.

Pritzker Laurate Awardees

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Philip Johnson (1979)

IM Pei (1983)

Oscar Niemeyer (1988)

Frank Gehry (1989)

Renzo Piano (1998)

Norman Foster (1999)

Rem Koolhaas (2000)

Zaha Hadid (2004)

Jean Nouvel (2008)