Daniel Libeskind

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's House, Weimar,Germany; photocrom print published between 1890-1900.

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Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

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Close-up of ostriches (Struthio camelus) necks and heads; location unknown.

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Born	May 12, 1946 (age 78) • Łódź • Poland

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Charles Sumner Greene

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Bertrand Goldberg

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Andrés Duany

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Henry Mather Greene

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Charles Moore

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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

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Martin Roche

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

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Daniel H. Burnham.

Daniel Burnham

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

German-American architect

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Eero Saarinen in a womb chair

Eero Saarinen

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Walter Netsch

Walter Netsch

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Michael Graves: Portland Public Service Building

Michael Graves

American architect and designer

I.M. Pei

I.M. Pei

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R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959

R. Buckminster Fuller

American engineer, architect, and futurist

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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World