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Born c.1762 • Ireland
Died December 8, 1831 • Washington, D.C. • United States
Movement / Style Neoclassical art

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Historic architectural drawing by James Hoban from 1792 showing the front elevation of the White House, with symmetrical windows and a central columned entrance.
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Irving John Gill
American architect
Bulfinch, Charles
Charles Bulfinch
American architect
Arc de Triomphe
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
French architect
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George Dance, the Younger
British architect and artist
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
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Alfred B. Mullett
American architect
Camden
Robert Mills
American architect
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Morris Lapidus
American architect
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Horatio Greenough
American sculptor and writer
Roche, Kevin: Convention Centre Dublin
Kevin Roche
Irish American architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Rossi, Aldo: Quartier Schützenstrasse
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
St. John's College Chapel
Sir George Gilbert Scott
British architect
Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Jaipur Column
Sir Edwin Lutyens
British architect
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Lúcio Costa
Brazilian architect
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Kikutake Kiyonori
Japanese architect
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Horiguchi Sutemi
Japanese architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Scottish architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect

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