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(gwär ´n gwär ´n ) (KEY) , 1624–83, Italian architect, mathematician, and writer. He was one of the first to analyze with perceptivity the stru...
1795–1860, English architect. A leader in the revival of the Renaissance style of architecture in England (also called Anglo-Italian), he designed t...
1832–1907, American engineer and architect, b. Fairhaven, Mass. He studied at Harvard Scientific School and the École des Beaux-Arts. Later he lear...
(h v´ l nd) (KEY) , 1792–1852, American architect, b. Philadelphia. Haviland was noted as a pioneer in prison architecture. His design for the Penn...
1879–1957, British architect and town planner. Professor of civil design at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1915 to 1935 and of town planning at the Uni...
(d m ´n k f ntä´nä) (KEY) , 1543–1607, Italian architect. He went to Rome, where he built (c.1580) the Sistine Chapel in the Church of Santa Ma...