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Born 1803 • Connecticut
Died January 17, 1897 (aged 94) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
American engineer and architect
Labrouste, Henri: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Henri Labrouste
French architect
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Bertrand Goldberg
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
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H.H. Richardson
American architect
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman
American architect
Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect
Rudolph, Paul: Orange County Government Center
Paul Rudolph
American architect
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Israeli-Canadian-American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Hayden, Sophia: Woman's Building
Sophia Hayden
American architect

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