Biography Category
(Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) (v tr ´v s) (KEY) , fl. late 1st cent. B.C. and early 1st cent. A.D., Roman writer, engineer, and architect for the Empero...
(äNr ´ väN d v ld) (KEY) , 1863–1957, Belgian designer and architect. Beginning as a painter, critic, and crafts designer in Belgium and in Fran...
(jä´k m dä v ny ´lä) (KEY) , 1507–73, one of the foremost late Renaissance architects in Italy. His real name was Giacomo Barozzi or Barocchio...
(özh n´ mänü l´ vyôl ´-l -dük) (KEY) , 1814–79, French architect and writer. He was the most prominent exponent of the Gothic revival in Fr...
1925–, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period. He...
1857–1941, English decorator and architect. He was the first modern English architect to design houses almost free of stylistic reminiscences. He al...