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Born June 14, 1716 • York • England
Died April 30, 1775 (aged 58) • New Haven • Connecticut
Movement / Style Palladianism

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Church of S. Marcello, Rome, by Carlo Fontana, c. 1683
Carlo Fontana
Italian architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
chapel at Turku, Finland
Erik Bryggman
Finnish architect
Asplund, Gunnar: Göteborg Law Courts extension
Gunnar Asplund
Swedish architect
Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Cram, Ralph Adams
Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer
George Dance, the Younger
British architect and artist
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
William Butterfield
British architect
Cret, Paul Phillippe: Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
Paul Phillippe Cret
American architect
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
British architect
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., designed by Henry Bacon, 1911.
Henry Bacon
American architect
The Radcliffe Camera, designed by James Gibbs
James Gibbs
Scottish architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect

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