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Architects born active died
1673 1698-1740s 1752
a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, where he married and converted to Catholicism, changing his name to Ludovici. He worked in the altars of the Church of Saint Ignatius of Jesus and received the influences of masters as Carlo Fontana and Andrea Pozzo. The Jesuits admired his work and talent, inviting him to work in Portugal. There he became famous by the project for the Mafra National Palace (1717–1731) for the Portuguese king João V, among many other monuments, including churches and the tower of the University of Coimbra.
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Joao Frederico Ludovice 1673 1698
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Lorenzo Gafa 1638 1661 1699 1703 a Maltese baroque architect. He worked on the church of St. Paul, Rabat (1664–1683); Sarria chu... Franz Martinelli 1651 ca 1670 1699 1708, Oct 28 an Austrian architect born in Italy. Father of Johann Baptist and Anton Erhard Martinelli. His mo... Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1646, Apr 16 1670 1703 1708, May 11 a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architectu... Nicodemus Tessin the Younger 1654, May 23 1681 1703 1728, Apr 10 a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. Most of Tessin's projects as an arc... Elizabeth Mytton Wilbraham 1632 1671 1704 1705 a member of the English aristocracy, who traditionally has been identified as an important archit... Andrea Pozzo 1642, Nov 30 1659 1709 1709, Aug 31 an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theo... James Smith [1] 1645 ca 1677 1710 1731 a Scottish architect, who pioneered the Palladian style in Scotland. He was described by Colen Ca... Christopher Wren 1632, Oct 20 1653 1718 1723, Feb 25 one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility fo... Domenico Martinelli 1650, Nov 30 1670 1719 1718, Sep 11 an Italian architect who was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps.... Christoph Dientzenhofer 1655, Jul 7 1670 1722 1722, Jun 20 a prominent Bavarian architect of South-German, Austrian and Bohemian Baroque. Among his works ar... Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656, Jul 20 1671 1723 1723, Apr 5 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl... Jan Blazej Santini-Aichel 1677, Feb 3 1700 1723 1723, Dec 7 a Bohemian-Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Got... Jakob Prandtauer 1660, Jul 16 1680 1726 1726, Sep 16 an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed a... Teodoro Ardemans 1661 ca 1702 1726 1726 a Spanish architect and painter. He was a disciple of the painter Claudio Coello, although he mai... Colen Campbell 1676, Jun 15 1712 1729 1729, Sep 13 a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian s... Edward Lovett Pearce 1699 1720 1733 1733, Dec 7 an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of palladianism in Ireland. He is best known for the I... Domenico Trezzini 1670 ca 1703 1734 1734 a Swiss Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture. Domen... Cosmas Damian Asam 1686, Sep 29 1713 1734 1739, May 10 a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Brother of sculptor Egid Quirin As... Nicholas Hawksmoor 1661 ca 1679 1736 1736, Mar 25 an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the... Filippo Juvarra 1678, Mar 7 1705 1736 1736, Jan 31 an Italian architect and stage set designer, active in a late-Baroque style. In 1708 he created h... Giacomo Leoni 1686 1710 1739 1746, Jun 8 an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance arch... Josef Munggenast 1680, Mar 5 1717 1739 1741, May 3 an Austrian architect and masterbuilder of the Baroque period. Munggenast was born in Schnann in ... William Kent 1685 ca 1709 1743 1748, Apr 12 An eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th centur... Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt 1668, Nov 14 1696 1745 1745, Nov 16 an Austrian baroque architect and military engineer who designed stately buildings and churches a... William Adam 1689 1714 1746 1748, Jun 24 a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotl... Anton Erhard Martinelli 1684 1700 1747 1747, Sep 15 an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent. Son of architect Franz Martinelli, b... Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 1689, Sep 1 1717 1751 1751, Dec 18 a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph D... Richard Cassels 1690 1728 1751 1751 one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. The untimely death of Edwa... Carl Marcus Tuscher 1705, Jun 1 1728 1751 1751, Jan 6 a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator of the Baro... Balthasar Neumann 1687, Jan 27 1712 1753 1753, Aug 19 a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque archi... Dominikus Zimmermann 1685, jun 30 1716 1754 1766, Nov 16 a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Brother of Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Born in Gaispoint ... Nicolai Eigtved 1701, Jun 4/22 1720 1754 1754, Jun 7 a Danish architect, introduced and was the leading proponent of the French rococo style in Danish... John Wood the Elder 1704 1725 1754 1754, May 23 an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew... Johann Baptist Zimmermann 1680, Jan 3 1701 1757 1758, Mar 2 a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque, he was born in Gaispoint, Wesso... Giorgio Massari 1687, Oct 13 1715 1759 1766, Dec 20 an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715,... Johann Baptist Martinelli 1701, Feb 1720 1759 1754, Jun 21 an Austrian architect and constructor of Italian descent. He was born in Vienna, the son of archi... Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin 1700 1729 1763 1763 a Russian architect whose designs marked a transition of Russian architecture from early Muscovit... Johann Michael Fischer 1692, Feb 18 1714 1766 1766, May 6 a German architect in the late Baroque period. He studied in Bohemia and combined Bohemian elemen... François de Cuvillies 1695, Oct 23 1724 1768 1768, Apr 14 a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect who was instrumental in bringing the Ro... Luigi Vanvitelli 1700, May 12 1732 1769 1773, Mar 1 an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practis... Bernardo Vittone 1704, Aug 19 1732 1769 1770, Oct 19 an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active... Jose Ramirez de Arellano 1705 1740 1770 1770, Mar 27 a Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Juan Ramírez Mejandre, ... Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli 1700 1721 1771 1771, Apr 29 an Italian architect whose entire career was spent in Russia. He developed an easily recognizable... Peter Harrison 1716 1747 1772 1775 a colonial American architect who was born in York, England and emigrated to Rhode Island. Peter ... William Buckland 1734 1755 1773 1774 an architect who designed in colonial Maryland and Virginia. Most notable among his repertoire ar... Ange-Jacques Gabriel 1698, Oct 23 1728 1777 1782, Jan 4 the most prominent French architect of his generation. His sober rationality in planning and deta... John Douglas 1709 ca 1730 1779 1778, Jun 20 a Scottish architect who designed and reformed several country houses in the Scottish Lowlands. H... Charles Ribart unknown 1750 1779 unknown an 18th-century French architect. In 1758, he planned an addition to the Champs-Élysées in Pari... John Wood the Younger 1728, Feb 25 1750 1779 1782, Jun 18 an English architect, working principally in the city of Bath, Somerset. He was the son of the ar... Jacques-Germain Soufflot 1713, Jul 22 1750 1780 1780, Aug 29 a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous wor... John Gwynn 1713 1749 1781 1786, Feb 28 an English architect and civil engineer, who became one of the founder members of the Royal Acade... Antonio Rinaldi 1710 ca 1751 1784 1794, Apr 10 an Italian architect, trained by Luigi Vanvitelli, who worked mainly in Russia. His first importa... Sir Robert Taylor 1714 1740 1788 1788 a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Among his earliest projects was Asgill ... Thomas Sandby 1721 1740 1789 1798, Jun 25 an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed priva... Etienne-Louis Boullee 1728, Feb 12 1762 1790 1799, Feb 4 a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. ... Robert Adam 1728, Jul 3 1746 1792 1792, Mar 3 a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. Robert Adam was a le... Nicolas-Henri Jardin 1720, Mar 22 1738 1793 1799, Aug 31 a neoclassical architect, was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and... Henry Emlyn 1729 1781 1795 1815, Dec 10 an English architect. Emlyn published A Proposition for a new Order in Architecture, with rules f... Sir William Chambers 1723, Feb 23 1740 1796 1796, Mar 10 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon... Januarius Zick 1730, Feb 6 1750 1797 1797, Nov 14 a painter and architect. He is considered to be one of the main masters of the Late-Baroque. Janu... Johann Joseph Thalherr 1730 1750 1798 1801, Oct 16 an Austrian architect. He is one of the main representatives of the Palladian revival in Central ... John Carr of York 1723 1752 1799 1807 a prolific English architect. Best known for Buxton Crescent and Harewood House, much of his work... Richard Jupp 1728 1755 1799 1799, Apr 17 an 18th-century English architect, particularly associated with buildings in and around London. H... James Bloodworth 1759, Mar 7 1788 1803 1804, Mar 21 A master bricklayer and builder responsible for the construction of most of the buildings in the ... Laurent-Benoît Dewez 1731, Apr 14 1758 1804 1812, Nov 1 a Belgian architect of Walloon origin. He is considered the most influential architect in the Aus... Joseph Bonomi the Elder 1739, Jan 19 1768 1804 1808, Mar 9 an Italian architect and draughtsman who spent most of his career in England where he became a su... Charles Percier 1764, Aug 22 1784 1804 1838, Sep 5 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who was one of the inventors an... Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart 1739, Feb 15 1782 1807 1813, Jun 6 a prominent French architect. Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart designed hotels, including the Hôt... Giuseppe Piermarini 1734, Jul 18 1765 1808 1808, Feb 18 an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala... Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard 1743, Sep 11 1764 1809 1809, Jun 4 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ... Aleijadinho 1730/38 1770 1809 1814, Nov 18 noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become ... Samuel McIntire 1757, Jan 16 1780 1809 1811, Feb 6 an American architect and craftsman, Chestnut Street District, a legacy to one of the earliest ar... Ezra Weeks unknown 1800 1809 unknown a successful builder who served as a witness in a sensationalized murder trial. John McComb, the... Michael Searles 1750 1780 1813 1813 famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notab... Giacomo Quarenghi 1744, Sep 20/21 1770 1817 1817, Feb 18 was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, par... Levi Weeks 1776 1800 1819 1819 the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the Un... Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764, May 1 1784 1820 1820, Sep 3 a British subject and neoclassical architect. In his thirties, he emigrated to the new United Sta... Barthelemy Lafon 1769 1790 1820 1820, Sep 29 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap... Thomas Jefferson 1743, Apr 2 1767 1824 1826, Jul 4 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ... Joseph Christian Lillie 1760, Mar 20 1775 1827 1827, Jan 29 a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he ... William Thornton 1759, May 20 1789 1828 1828, Mar 28 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi... Mary Townley 1753 1770 1829 1839 she designed several buildings in Ramsgate in the late 18th century, making her one of England's ... James Hoban 1758 ca 1779 1829 1831, Dec 8 an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C. He excelled in h... John McComb Jr. 1763 1792 1829 1853 an American architect who designed many landmarks in the 18th and 19th centuries. McComb's father... John Nash 1752, Jan 18 1778 1830 1835, May 13 a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London under the patronage of t... John Soane 1753, Sep 10 1780 1832 1837, Jan 20 an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose... Charles Bulfinch 1763, Aug 8 1788 1832 1844, Apr 15 an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to p... Thomas Telford 1757, Aug 9 1771 1834 1834, Sep 2 a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After es... Christian Heinrich Nebbien 1778 1783 1839 1841 a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho... Joseph-Jacques Ramee 1764, Apr 26 1790 1839 1842, May 18 a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist i... William Wilkins 1778, Aug 31 1804 1839 1839, Aug 31 an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery and U... Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781, Mar 13 1805 1839 1841, Oct 9 a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schin... Vasily P. Stasov 1769, Aug 4 1810 1839 1848, Sep 5 a Russian architect. He extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor at t... Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691, Jun 17 1710 184 1765, Oct 21 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa... Lauritz de Thurah 1706, Mar 4 1725 184 1759, Sep 5 a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the... Asher Benjamin 1773, Jun 15 1794 1841 1845, Jul 26 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t... Giuseppe Jappelli 1783, May 14 1819 1842 1852, May 8 an Italian neoclassic architect and engineer who was born and died in Venice. He studied at the C... Ithiel Town 1784, Oct 3 1810 1843 1844, Jun 13 a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional ar... Friedrich Ludwig Persius 1803, Feb 15 1817 1845 1845, Jul 12 a Prussian architect and a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel with, am... George Webster 1797, May 3 1818 1845 1864, Apr 16 an English architect who practised in Kendal, which was at the time in Westmorland, and later in ... William Burn 1789, Dec 20 1811 1846 1870, Feb 15 a Scottish architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. A talented architect, he received m... Carlo Rossi 1775, Dec 18 1795 1849 1849, Apr 18 an Italian architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia. He was the author of ma... Leo von Klenze 1784, Feb 29 1808 1849 1864, Jan 26 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ... Richard Lane 1795, Apr 3 1821 1849 1880, May 25 a distinguished English architect of the early and mid-19th century. Born in London and based in ... Alexander Parris 1780, Nov 24 1801 1850 1852, Jun 16 a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect... Abdallah Khan unknown 1810 1850 unknown a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti... John Frazee 1790, Jul 18 1820 1850 1852, Feb 24 an American sculptor and architect. The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as... Konstantin Andreyevich Thon 1794, Oct 26 1827 1851 1881, Jan 25 an official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include ... Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812, May 1 1825 1852 1852, Sep 14 an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in ... Pierre François Leonard Fontaine 1762, Sep 20 1794 1853 1853, Oct 10 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worke... William Strickland 1788, Nov 1800 1853 1854, Apr 6 a noted architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin ... Robert Mills 1781, Aug 12 1800 1855 1855, Mar 3 known for designing the Washington Monument, is sometimes called the first native born American t... Thomas Cubitt 1788, Feb 25 1810 1855 1855, Dec 20 was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carr... Joseph Bonomi the Younger 1796, Oct 9 1824 1856 1878, mar 3 an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator. From 1824 to 1826, he was a member ... Gustav Friedrich Hetsch 1788, Sep 28 1815 1857 1864, Sep 7 a Danish architect of German origin. Though most of his accomplishments were in the area of decor... Philip Hardwick 1792, Jun 15 1819 1857 1870, Dec 28 an English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and ... Sir Charles Barry 1795, May 23 1812 1858 1860, May 12 an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (als... Auguste de Montferrand 1786, Jan 23 1815 1858 1858, Jul 10 a French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia. His two best known works are the ... William Hosking 1800, Nov 26 1820 1861 1861, Aug 2 an English writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and devel... Ammi B. Young 1798, jun 19 1828 1861 1874, Mar 14 a 19th-century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Ne... Ignatius Bonomi 1787 1817 1862 1870 an English architect and surveyor, strongly associated with Durham in north-east England. Bonomi... John Dobson 1787, Dec 9 1811 1863 1865, Jan 8 a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architec... Enrico Marconi 1792, Jan 7 1822 1863 1863, Feb 21 an Italian architect who spent most of his life in Congress Poland. He was commissioned by genera... Joseph Paxton 1803, Aug 3 1823 1865 1865, Jun 8 an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Pal... Isaiah Rogers 1800, Aug 17 1829 1865 1869, Apr 13 a US architect who practiced in Mobile, Alabama, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, New York, ... Anton Pius Riegel 1789, Dec 5 1810 1868 1868, Aug 7 an Austrian architect of the 19th century. He is mainly known for the design of the Károlyi pala... Henri Labrouste 1801, May 11 1821 1868 1875, Jun 24 a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of architecture. After a six-year... Antoine-Louis Barye 1796, Sep 24 1810 1869 1875, Jun 25 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ... Decimus Burton 1800, Sep 30 1818 1869 1881, Dec 14 a prolific English architect and garden designer. Also, particularly associated with projects in... Edward Blore 1787, Sep 13 1811 1874 1879, Sep 4 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w... David Bryce 1803, Apr 3 1825 1876 1876, May 7 a Scottish architect. In the course of a busy and successful career, which was actively continued... Alexander Jackson Davis 1803, Jul 24 1820 1878 1892, Jan 14 was one of the most successful and influential American architects of his generation, known parti... Lewis Cubitt 1799, Sep 29 1820 1879 1883, Jun 9 an English civil engineer, he was a younger brother of Thomas Cubitt. He built many bridges in hi... Sir James Pennethorne 1801, Jun 4 1820 1879 1871, Sep 1 a 19th-century English architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in... Thomas Leverton Donaldson 1795, Oct 19 1826 1879 1885, Aug 1 a British architect, notable as a pioneer in architectural education, as a co-founder and Preside... John Ruskin 1819, Feb 8 1829 1889 1900, Jan 20 the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, water... Robert Mylne 1733, Jan 4 1758 189 1811, May 5 a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars B...
