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(pôl m l´ bôtä´) (KEY) , 1805–70, French archaeologist and government official. While consular agent at Mosul (1843) he made his renowned disc...
1763–1844, American architect, b. Boston. A member of the Boston board of selectmen in 1791, he was chosen chairman in 1799—an office equivalent t...
1813–85, English Egyptologist. He wrote a dictionary of hieroglyphics and translated the Book of the Dead....
1909–90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Bunshaft was responsible...
1694–1753, English patron and architect of the Neo-Palladian movement. Even before age 21, when he became a member of the Privy Council and Lord Hig...
(h n´dr k p ´trüs berlä´g ) (KEY) , 1856–1934, Dutch architect. In both his writings and architectural practice, Berlage advocated a return to ...