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Gallery room at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, with framed portraits and group paintings on the walls and a bench in the center of the wood floor.
Louvre
Visitors walk in front of the British Museum's grand neoclassical facade in London, featuring tall columns and a triangular pediment.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
The British Museum's grand neoclassical facade in London, featuring tall columns, a sculpted pediment, and visitors gathered on the steps.
Louvre Museum
The neoclassical facade of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, with the Diego Velazquez statue in front and the Spanish flag flying above the entrance.
Alte Pinakothek
Indian Museum
The Smithsonian Institution's Castle in Washington, D.C., a large red sandstone building with multiple towers and arched windows, seen from the front across a lawn.
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Discussing the artifacts at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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Kazuyo Sejima
Japanese architect
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Jacques Herzog
Swiss architect
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Pierre de Meuron
Swiss architect
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Ryue Nishizawa
Japanese architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo
Mexican architect
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
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Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect and designer
Álvaro Siza: Bouça social housing complex
Álvaro Siza
Portuguese architect
Richard Meier: Atheneum
Richard Meier
American architect
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers: Centre Georges Pompidou
Renzo Piano
Italian architect
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
French architect
Rossi, Aldo: Quartier Schützenstrasse
Aldo Rossi
Italian architect
Rafael Moneo: Prado Museum addition
Rafael Moneo
Spanish architect
Norman Foster: 30 St Mary Axe
Norman Foster
British 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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