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Born November 24, 1859 • Zanesville • Ohio
Died May 17, 1934 (aged 74) • England

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U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.
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Nathaniel Owings
American architect and engineer
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Bruce Graham
American architect
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Louis Skidmore
American architect
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Martin Roche
American architect
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
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
Chinese-born American architect
Jeanne Gang smiling at an event, wearing a black turtleneck with a dark backdrop featuring partially visible award text.
Jeanne Gang
American architect
Norman Foster: 30 St Mary Axe
Norman Foster
British architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Eliel Saarinen: First Christian Church
Eliel Saarinen
Finnish architect
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Harvey Ellis
American architect and painter
Fazlur Khan in the late 1970s
Fazlur Khan
American engineer
lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
Holabird, William; Roche, Martin; Marquette Building
William Holabird
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

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