Lúcio Costa: Quick Facts

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Born	February 27, 1902 • Toulon • France
Died	June 13, 1998 (aged 96) • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

Brazilian architect

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Swiss architect

Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Jaipur Column

Sir Edwin Lutyens

British architect

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George Dance, the Younger

British architect and artist

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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Pierre Charles L’Enfant

French engineer and architect

Arc de Triomphe

Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin

French architect

Dôme des Invalides, Paris

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

French architect

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Emmanuel Héré de Corny

French architect

La Halle Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier

French architect

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Andrés Duany

American architect

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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

American architect

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José Benito Churriguera

Spanish architect

Daniel H. Burnham.

Daniel Burnham

American architect

Alvar Aalto.

Alvar Aalto

Finnish architect

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Inigo Jones

English architect and artist

Otto, Frei

Frei Otto

German architect

Tatiana Bilbao

Tatiana Bilbao

Mexican 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

Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.

Artists, Painters, & Architects

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World