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1723, Feb 231740-17961796, Mar 10
a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, London, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy.
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Sir William Chambers1723, Feb 231740
 
17961796, Mar 10

William Kent1685 ca1709
 
17431748, Apr 12
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Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt1668, Nov 141696
 
17451745, Nov 16
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William Adam16891714
 
17461748, Jun 24
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Anton Erhard Martinelli16841700
 
17471747, Sep 15
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Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer1689, Sep 11717
 
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Richard Cassels16901728
 
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 one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. The untimely death of Edwa...
Carl Marcus Tuscher1705, Jun 11728
 
17511751, Jan 6
 a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator of the Baro...
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17531753, Aug 19
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Dominikus Zimmermann1685, jun 301716
 
17541766, Nov 16
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Nicolai Eigtved1701, Jun 4/221720
 
17541754, Jun 7
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John Wood the Elder17041725
 
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17571758, Mar 2
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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...
Lauritz de Thurah1706, Mar 41725
 
17591759, Sep 5
 a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the...
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin17001729
 
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Johann Michael Fischer1692, Feb 181714
 
17661766, May 6
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François de Cuvillies1695, Oct 231724
 
17681768, Apr 14
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Luigi Vanvitelli1700, May 121732
 
17691773, Mar 1
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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
 
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Henry Emlyn17291781
 
 
17951815, Dec 10
 an English architect. Emlyn published A Proposition for a new Order in Architecture, with rules f...
Januarius Zick1730, Feb 61750
 
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 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
 
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 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
 
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 a Belgian architect of Walloon origin. He is considered the most influential architect in the Aus...
Joseph Bonomi the Elder1739, Jan 191768
 
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Charles Percier1764, Aug 221784
 
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 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
 
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Samuel McIntire1757, Jan 161780
 
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe1764, May 11784
 
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Barthelemy Lafon17691790
 
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 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
 
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 a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he ...
William Thornton1759, May 201789
 
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Mary Townley17531770
 
18291839
 she designed several buildings in Ramsgate in the late 18th century, making her one of England's ...
James Hoban1758 ca1779
 
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John McComb Jr.17631792
 
18291853
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Joao Frederico Ludovice16731698
 
1831752
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John Nash1752, Jan 181778
 
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John Soane1753, Sep 101780
 
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Charles Bulfinch1763, Aug 81788
 
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Thomas Telford1757, Aug 91771
 
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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
 
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Carlo Rossi1775, Dec 181795
 
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Pierre François Leonard Fontaine1762, Sep 201794
 
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 a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars B...
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