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by GAD

With the advent of industrialism and modernism, behavioral patterns have drastically evolved. The repercussions affect both architects and others concerned with the built environment. Nowadays, the relationship of architecture to technology and social issues is in utter disarray. To come to terms with this, I began compiling a list of figures from the last 2000 years who are relevant for the history of architecture – an archipedia of those who left a mark on the profession. It is comprised, in addition to significant practitioners of architecture, of many other individuals who have had a deliberate or incidental impact on the profession. I initially decided on 200 thinkers who have impressed their charisma on the world and the discipline, but as I proceeded, I realized that 200 is far from enough. It is a useful summary, but my goal has shifted to 2000.

HISTORICAL PRACTICE

20th & CENTURY PRACTICE

Steven Holl

Architect

MAD

Architect

Chris Precht

Architect

Kengo Kuma

Architect

Toyo Ito

Architect

Jeanne Gang

Architect

Norman Foster

Architect

Billie Tsien

Architect

Kazuya Sejima

Architect

Zaha Hadid

Architect

Renzo Piano

Architect

Sou Fujimoto

Architect

Greg Lynn

Architect

Jurgen Meyer

Architect

UN Studio

Architects

MODERNISM

Innovators

Eero Saarinen

Architect

Louis Kahn

Architect

Early

Peter Behrens

Architect

Bruno Taut

Architect

Ernst Arnold Egli

Architect & Urban Planner

Paul Bonatz

Architect

International Style

Regional

Alvar Aalto

Architect

Luis Barragan

Architect

Carlo Scarpa

Architect

Mid-Century

John Lautner

Architect

Paul Rudolph

Architect

Pragmatic

Tadao Ando

Architect

Arata Isozaki

Architect

Kenzo Tange

Architect

Late

RICHARD MEIER

Architect

Ironic

HAT TRICK

Jean Nouvel

Architect

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Julius Shulman

Architectural Photographer

Lucien Herve

Photographer

Iwan Baan

Photographer

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN & BIO-MIMICRY

ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY

Shigeru Ban

Architect

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Julius Shulman

Architectural Photographer

Lucien Herve

Architectural Photographer

Iwan Baan

Architectural Photographer

ARCHINEERING PUBLIC SPACE

Cecil Balmond

Designer & Engineer

Santiago Calatrava

Architect & Engineer

Felix Candela

Architect

Frei Otto

Architect

Peter Rice

Engineer

Heinz Isler

Engineer

URBAN SCALE ARCHITECTURE

Robert Moses

Architect

Georges Eugene Haussmann

Urban Planner & Politician

Ildefons Cerda

Urban Planner

URBAN LANDSCAPE

Leon Krier

Architect & Urban Planner

Robert Venturi

Architect & Planner

Edward Soja

Geographer

Ebenezer Howard

Urban Planner

Lewis Mumford

Historian & Writer

Henri Lefebvre

Philosopher & Sociologist

ENGINEERING

Bruno Nervi

Architect

Ove Arup

Engineer

Dean Kamen

Engineer

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Civil Engineer

Hanif Kara

Engineer

MILESTONES OF THEORY

Vitruvius

Architect & Engineer

Leone Battista Alberti

Architect & Philosopher

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Architect & Archaeologist

Le Corbusier

Architect

DESIGN & BUILDING METHODOLOGY

Modern

Louis Kahn

Architect

Back To The Future | Vernacular

Hassan Fathy

Architect

Back To The Future | Local

ALPASLAN ATAMAN

Architect & Researcher

Back To The Future | Global

Aldo Rossi

Architect

Leon Krier

Architect

Late Modern

Rem Koolhaas

Architect

Digital

Zaha Hadid

Architect

DESIGN

Dai Fujiwara

Creative director

Thomas Heatherwick

Architect & Designer

Ray & Charles Eames

Industrial Designer

Ross Lovegrove

Industrial Designer

FASHION DESIGN

Issey Miyake

Fashion Designer

Iris Van Harpen

Fashion Designer

VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

Herbert Bayer

Graphic Designer

Josef Muller - Brockmann

Graphic Designer

Adrian Frutiger

Designer & Author

Edward Tufte

Statistician & Professor

INNOVATION & ART

Maya Lin

Architect & Landscape Architect

Anish Kapoor

Sculpturer

Ai Weiwei

Artist

Richard Serra

Sculpturer & Artist

Chuck Hoberman

Artist & Engineer

CURATING & CULTURE

Terence Riley

Architect

Julia Peyton Jones

Curator & Gallery Director

Suha Ozkan

Architect

Martha Thorne

Architect

Paola Antonelli

Author & Editor

DIGITAL GROTESQUE

OTHER TYPES OF ARCHITECTS

Erno Rubik

Architect

Pink Floyd

Architect & Musician

CRITICISM

Giancarlo De Carlo

Architect & Planner

Jeffrey Kipnis

Designer & Curator

Colin Rowe

Arhitectural Historian

Vincent Scully

Art Historian

Manfredo Tafuri

Architect & Historian

Sigfried Giedion

Historian & Critic

Kenneth Frampton

Architect & Critic

Mario Carpo

Architectural Historian

Denise Scott Brown

Architect & Planner

Charles Jencks

Landscape Designer

ACADEMIA

Otto Wagner

Architect

Odile Decq

Architect

John Hejduk

Architect

Ugur Tanyeli

Architect

Aaron Betsky

Architect

ARCHAEOLOGY

Sophus Otto Muller

Archaeologist

Osman Hamdi Bey

Painter & Archaeologist

Ekrem Akurgal

Archaeologist

PHILOSOPHY

Descartes

Philosopher

Bruno Latour

Philosopher

Karl Marx

Philosopher

Felix Guattari

Philosopher

Jacques Derrida

Philosopher

Gilles Deleuze

Philosopher

LITERATURE

Victor Hugo

Poet & Author

Richard Sennett

Sociologist & Author

Fyodor Dostoyevski

Poet & Author

Alain de Botton

Philosopher & Author

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Novelist & Author

Orhan Pamuk

Novelist & Author

Umberto Eco

Medievalist & Philosopher

Italo Calvino

Author & Journalist

ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATIONS

Marc Kushner

Architizer

David Basulto

ArchDaily

SCIENCE

Galileo

Astronomer & Physicist & Engineer

Stephen Hawking

Heoretical Physicist & Cosmologist

Charles Darwin

Naturalist & Geologist & Biologist

Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher

Alan Turing

Mathematician & Computer Scientist

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Writer & Futurist

DIGITAL DESIGN

BILL GATES

Usiness Magnate & Software Developer

Ray Kurzweil

Inventor & Futurist

Tim Berners-Lee

Computer Scientist & Inventor

Neri Oxman

Designer & Architect

Steve Jobs

Industrial Designer & Investor

Stephen Wolfram

Computer Scientist & Physicist

Dennis Ritchie

Computer Scientist

Gary Yost

Filmmaker & Software Designer

SCULPTURE

Andre Bloc

Sculptor

SOCIAL MEDIA

MONOGRAPHS & BOOKS

The Function of Form

Building: 3000 Years of Design Engineering and Construction

The Architecture of Community

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

The Function of Ornament

The Metropolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture

Ten Books on Architecture

The Function of Style

Atlas of Novel Tectonics

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Why We Build

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

The Heights, Anatomy of a Skyscraper

Hot to Cold

The Autopoiesis of Architecture

A Primer of Architectural Principles

A Passion to Build

Sex and Real Estate

The Anatomy of Architectural Book

EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION

ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATIONS

CINEMA

Battleship Potempkin

2001

Metropolis

Gattaca

Modern Times

Brazil

Blade Runner

Avatar

Play Time

Mars

Belly of an Architect

1984

DOCUMENTARIES

Powers of Ten

My Architect

Triumph of the Will

Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

EVENTS AND FESTIVALS

Istanbul Architecture Biannale

ARCHITECTURE MUSEUMS

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