Biography Category
( ´r k g n´när äs´pl nd) (KEY) , 1885–1940, Swedish architect. He designed the central library of Stockholm (completed 1928), but he is best kn...
Roman architect and engineer, fl. late 1st to early 2d cent. A.D., b. Syria. Apollodorus was responsible for nearly all buildings designed under the e...
(äNdr - ´ dü s rs ´) (KEY) , family of French architects active in the 16th and 17th cent. It was founded by Jacques Androuet, c.1520–c.1584, su...
1926–, American anthropologist, b. Chicago, Ill., grad. Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1947; M.A., 1952; Ph.D., 1956). He served on the faculty of the Uni...
( l´vär äl´t ) (KEY) , 1898–1976, Finnish architect and furniture designer. Aalto is considered one of the foremost architects of the 20th cent....
1404–72, Italian architect, musician, painter, and humanist, active at the papal court, Florence, Rimini, and Mantua. Alberti was the first architec...