This is a list of notable

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* Max Abramovitz * Dankmar Adler (German-born) * David Adler * Gregory Ain * Michael Arad (Israeli-British-American)

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* Edward Blum and

George Blum George Blum (born France; 1870–1928) was an architect raised in the American architecture, United States. He later returned with his brother, Edward Blum (architect), Edward Blum, to French architecture, France, and studied at the École des Bea ...

, École des Beaux-Arts-trained brothers of Alsatian-French descent; celebrated for their terra cotta embellished,

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Manhattan apartment buildings; ended their career with two Art Deco works; their work was catalogued in Andrew S. Dolkart and Susan Tunick's 1993 book ''George & Edward Blum: Texture and Design in New York Apartment House Architecture'' * Marcel Breuer (Hungarian-born) * Arnold Brunner, considered the first successful American born Jewish architect in the US; also a city planner; namesake of an annual award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant by the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter * Gordon Bunshaft

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* Irwin Chanin *

Elizabeth Close Elizabeth "Lisl" Close, (née Scheu; 4 June 1912, in Vienna – 29 November 2011, in Minneapolis) was an influential female architect practicing in Minnesota. During her long partnership with her husband, Winston "Win" Close (1906-1997), she des ...

* Preston Scott Cohen

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* Elizabeth Diller (Polish-born) * Dan Dworsky

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* Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz *

Peter Eisenman Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his writing and speaking about architecture as well as his designs, which have been called high modernist or deconstructiv ...

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* Ulrich Franzen (German-born) * James Ingo Freed (German-born)

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Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...

* Bertrand Goldberg * Myron Goldsmith * Percival Goodman

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* Albert Kahn ( Prussian-born) * Louis Kahn (

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-born)

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Edgar M. Lazarus Edgar Marks Lazarus (June 6, 1868 – October 2, 1939) was an American architect who was prominent in the Portland, Oregon, area for more than 45 years. He was best known as the architect of the Vista House on Crown Point in the Columbia River G ...

(1868–1939), prominent in the Portland, Oregon area for more than 45 years, best known as the architect of the Vista House *

Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...

(Polish-born)

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Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings ...

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Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. He ...

(Austrian-born)

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* Alfred Rosenheim

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* Robert Stern * Rudolph Schindler

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* Joseph Urban, architect, set designer and book

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References

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