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a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London. Born and raised in Edinburgh, he travelled to Europe as a young man, studying architecture in Rome under Piranesi. In 1758 he became the first Briton to win the triennial architecture competition at the Accademia di San Luca, which made his name known in London, and won him the rivalry of fellow Scot Robert Adam.
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Robert Mylne1733, Jan 41758
 
1811, May 51811, May 5

Giorgio Massari1687, Oct 131715
 
17591766, Dec 20
 an Italian late-Baroque architect from Venice. He designed the Villa Lattes near Treviso in 1715,...
Johann Baptist Martinelli1701, Feb1720
 
17591754, Jun 21
 an Austrian architect and constructor of Italian descent. He was born in Vienna, the son of archi...
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin17001729
 
17631763
 a Russian architect whose designs marked a transition of Russian architecture from early Muscovit...
Johann Michael Fischer1692, Feb 181714
 
17661766, May 6
 a German architect in the late Baroque period. He studied in Bohemia and combined Bohemian elemen...
François de Cuvillies1695, Oct 231724
 
17681768, Apr 14
 a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect who was instrumental in bringing the Ro...
Luigi Vanvitelli1700, May 121732
 
17691773, Mar 1
 an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practis...
Bernardo Vittone1704, Aug 191732
 
17691770, Oct 19
 an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active...
Jose Ramirez de Arellano17051740
 
17701770, Mar 27
 a Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor Juan Ramírez Mejandre, ...
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli17001721
 
17711771, Apr 29
 an Italian architect whose entire career was spent in Russia. He developed an easily recognizable...
Peter Harrison17161747
 
17721775
 a colonial American architect who was born in York, England and emigrated to Rhode Island. Peter ...
William Buckland17341755
 
17731774
 an architect who designed in colonial Maryland and Virginia. Most notable among his repertoire ar...
Ange-Jacques Gabriel1698, Oct 231728
 
17771782, Jan 4
 the most prominent French architect of his generation. His sober rationality in planning and deta...
John Douglas1709 ca1730
 
17791778, Jun 20
 a Scottish architect who designed and reformed several country houses in the Scottish Lowlands. H...
Charles Ribartunknown1750
 
1779unknown
 an 18th-century French architect. In 1758, he planned an addition to the Champs-Élysées in Pari...
John Wood the Younger1728, Feb 251750
 
17791782, Jun 18
 an English architect, working principally in the city of Bath, Somerset. He was the son of the ar...
Jacques-Germain Soufflot1713, Jul 221750
 
17801780, Aug 29
 a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous wor...
John Gwynn17131749
 
17811786, Feb 28
 an English architect and civil engineer, who became one of the founder members of the Royal Acade...
Antonio Rinaldi1710 ca1751
 
17841794, Apr 10
 an Italian architect, trained by Luigi Vanvitelli, who worked mainly in Russia. His first importa...
Sir Robert Taylor17141740
 
17881788
 a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Among his earliest projects was Asgill ...
Thomas Sandby17211740
 
17891798, Jun 25
 an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed priva...
Etienne-Louis Boullee1728, Feb 121762
 
 
17901799, Feb 4
 a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. ...
Robert Adam1728, Jul 31746
 
17921792, Mar 3
 a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. Robert Adam was a le...
Nicolas-Henri Jardin1720, Mar 221738
 
17931799, Aug 31
  a neoclassical architect, was born in St. Germain des Noyers, Dept. Seine-et-Marne, France, and...
Henry Emlyn17291781
 
 
17951815, Dec 10
 an English architect. Emlyn published A Proposition for a new Order in Architecture, with rules f...
Sir William Chambers1723, Feb 231740
 
17961796, Mar 10
 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon...
Januarius Zick1730, Feb 61750
 
17971797, Nov 14
 a painter and architect. He is considered to be one of the main masters of the Late-Baroque. Janu...
Johann Joseph Thalherr17301750
 
17981801, Oct 16
 an Austrian architect. He is one of the main representatives of the Palladian revival in Central ...
John Carr of York17231752
 
17991807
 a prolific English architect. Best known for Buxton Crescent and Harewood House, much of his work...
Richard Jupp17281755
 
17991799, Apr 17
 an 18th-century English architect, particularly associated with buildings in and around London. H...
James Bloodworth1759, Mar 71788
 
 
18031804, Mar 21
 A master bricklayer and builder responsible for the construction of most of the buildings in the ...
Laurent-Benoît Dewez1731, Apr 141758
 
18041812, Nov 1
 a Belgian architect of Walloon origin. He is considered the most influential architect in the Aus...
Joseph Bonomi the Elder1739, Jan 191768
 
 
18041808, Mar 9
 an Italian architect and draughtsman who spent most of his career in England where he became a su...
Charles Percier1764, Aug 221784
 
 
18041838, Sep 5
 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who was one of the inventors an...
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart1739, Feb 151782
 
 
18071813, Jun 6
  a prominent French architect. Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart designed hotels, including the Hôt...
Giuseppe Piermarini1734, Jul 181765
 
 
18081808, Feb 18
 an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala...
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard1743, Sep 111764
 
 
18091809, Jun 4
 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ...
Aleijadinho1730/381770
 
 
18091814, Nov 18
 noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become ...
Samuel McIntire1757, Jan 161780
 
 
18091811, Feb 6
 an American architect and craftsman, Chestnut Street District, a legacy to one of the earliest ar...
Ezra Weeksunknown1800
 
 
1809unknown
 a successful builder who served as a witness in a sensationalized murder trial. John McComb, the...
Michael Searles17501780
 
18131813
 famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notab...
Giacomo Quarenghi1744, Sep 20/211770
 
18171817, Feb 18
 was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, par...
Levi Weeks17761800
 
18191819
 the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the Un...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe1764, May 11784
 
18201820, Sep 3
 a British subject and neoclassical architect. In his thirties, he emigrated to the new United Sta...
Barthelemy Lafon17691790
 
18201820, Sep 29
 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap...
Thomas Jefferson1743, Apr 21767
 
18241826, Jul 4
 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ...
Joseph Christian Lillie1760, Mar 201775
 
18271827, Jan 29
 a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he ...
William Thornton1759, May 201789
 
18281828, Mar 28
 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi...
Mary Townley17531770
 
18291839
 she designed several buildings in Ramsgate in the late 18th century, making her one of England's ...
James Hoban1758 ca1779
 
18291831, Dec 8
 an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C. He excelled in h...
John McComb Jr.17631792
 
18291853
 an American architect who designed many landmarks in the 18th and 19th centuries. McComb's father...
Joao Frederico Ludovice16731698
 
1831752
 a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, ...
John Nash1752, Jan 181778
 
18301835, May 13
 a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London under the patronage of t...
John Soane1753, Sep 101780
 
18321837, Jan 20
 an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose...
Charles Bulfinch1763, Aug 81788
 
18321844, Apr 15
 an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to p...
Thomas Telford1757, Aug 91771
 
18341834, Sep 2
 a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After es...
Christian Heinrich Nebbien17781783
 
18391841
  a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho...
Joseph-Jacques Ramee1764, Apr 261790
 
18391842, May 18
 a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist i...
William Wilkins1778, Aug 311804
 
18391839, Aug 31
 an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery and U...
Karl Friedrich Schinkel1781, Mar 131805
 
18391841, Oct 9
 a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schin...
Vasily P. Stasov1769, Aug 41810
 
18391848, Sep 5
 a Russian architect. He extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor at t...
Giovanni Paolo Panini1691, Jun 171710
 
1841765, Oct 21
 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
Lauritz de Thurah1706, Mar 41725
 
1841759, Sep 5
 a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the...
Asher Benjamin1773, Jun 151794
 
18411845, Jul 26
 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t...
Ithiel Town1784, Oct 31810
 
18431844, Jun 13
 a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional ar...
William Burn1789, Dec 201811
 
18461870, Feb 15
 a Scottish architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. A talented architect, he received m...
Carlo Rossi1775, Dec 181795
 
18491849, Apr 18
 an Italian architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia. He was the author of ma...
Leo von Klenze1784, Feb 291808
 
18491864, Jan 26
 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ...
Alexander Parris1780, Nov 241801
 
18501852, Jun 16
 a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect...
Abdallah Khanunknown1810
 
1850unknown
 a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti...
Pierre François Leonard Fontaine1762, Sep 201794
 
18531853, Oct 10
 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worke...
William Strickland1788, Nov1800
 
18531854, Apr 6
 a noted architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin ...
Robert Mills1781, Aug 121800
 
18551855, Mar 3
 known for designing the Washington Monument, is sometimes called the first native born American t...
Thomas Cubitt1788, Feb 251810
 
18551855, Dec 20
 was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carr...
John Dobson1787, Dec 91811
 
18631865, Jan 8
 a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architec...
Anton Pius Riegel1789, Dec 51810
 
18681868, Aug 7
 an Austrian architect of the 19th century. He is mainly known for the design of the Károlyi pala...
Antoine-Louis Barye1796, Sep 241810
 
18691875, Jun 25
 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ...
Edward Blore1787, Sep 131811
 
18741879, Sep 4
 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w...
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