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Born March 27, 1896 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died February 9, 1969 (aged 72) • New York City • New York
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Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
Holabird, William; Roche, Martin; Marquette Building
William Holabird
American architect
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
American engineer and architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
Hood, Raymond M.: Daily News Building
Raymond M. Hood
American architect
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Pierre de Meuron
Swiss architect
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Bruce Graham
American architect
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Nathaniel Owings
American architect and engineer
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Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect
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Louis Skidmore
American architect
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Martin Roche
American architect
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
Michael Graves: Portland Public Service Building
Michael Graves
American architect and designer
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
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H.H. Richardson
American architect

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