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Born January 29, 1850 • London • England
Died May 1, 1928 (aged 78) • Welwyn Garden City • England
Subjects Of Study garden city • urban planning
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Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Wood, John, the Elder: Queen Square
John Wood the Elder
English architect
Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Jaipur Column
Sir Edwin Lutyens
British architect
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Gregory King
British statistician
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John Wood the Younger
British architect
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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
American architect
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Andrés Duany
American architect
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José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
Engraved bust of Emperor Herod the Great with a thick beard and a braided headpiece, framed by a circular border inscribed with his name.
Herod
king of Judaea
Bas-relief depicting the founding Assyrian king of Nineveh, Sennacherib
Sennacherib
king of Assyria
Otto, Frei
Frei Otto
German architect
Tatiana Bilbao
Tatiana Bilbao
Mexican architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Chinese architect Ma Yansong stands behind two scale models of the curving Marilyn Monroe Buildings in his Beijing office, with exposed wooden beams above.
Ma Yansong
Chinese architect
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Charles Correa
Indian architect