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Who designed the Temple of Zeus at Olympia?

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Map of southeastern Europe highlighting Greece and marking the location of Olympia with a red star, indicating its status as a World Heritage Site. Olympia is shown in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula, surrounded by neighboring countries and nearby seas including the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean. — Olympia Olympia was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1989.

The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was designed by the architect Libon of Elis around 460 BCE.1

While Libon was responsible for the temple's architecture, it is important to distinguish this from the famous Statue of Zeus housed within it. That masterpiece was created later, around 430 BCE, by the renowned Athenian sculptor Phidias.213