The following are German-born or

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s listed according to their architectural style.

Gothic

* Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460? – January 1509)

Renaissance

* Joseph Heintz (1564–1609) *

Elias Holl Elias Holl (28 February 1573 in Augsburg – 6 January 1646 in Augsburg) was the most important architect of late German Renaissance architecture. Life Elias Holl was born in Augsburg, Werbhausgasse 2. He was descended from a master-builder- ...

(1573–1646)

Baroque

* Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739) * Egid Quirin Asam (1692–1750) *

George Bähr George Bähr (15 March 1666 – 16 March 1738) was a German architect. Life George Bähr was born into a poor family in Fürstenwalde (now a part of Geising, Saxony), the son of a weaver. The village priest, however, helped pay for his educatio ...

(1666–1738) *

François de Cuvilliés François de Cuvilliés, sometimes referred to as ''the Elder'' (23 October 1695, Soignies, Hainaut14 April 1768, Munich), was a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect. He was instrumental in bringing the Rococo style to the Wi ...

(1695–1768) *

Johann Dientzenhofer Johann Dientzenhofer (25 May 1663 – 20 July 1726) was a builder and architect during the Baroque period in Germany. Johann was born in St. Margarethen near Rosenheim, Bavaria, a member of the famous Dientzenhofer family of German architects, wh ...

(1663–1726) * Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766) * Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (1692–1765) *

Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (Hans) Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia. Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County. A soldier in the service of Prussia, he resigned his ...

(1699–1753) * Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753) also an engineer * Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) *

Johann Conrad Schlaun Johann Conrad Schlaun (June 5, 1695 in Nörde now Warburg – October 21, 1773 in Münster) was a German architect. He is an important architect of the Westphalian Baroque architectural style. His designs include the Erbdrostenhof and Schloss Mü ...

(1695–1773) * Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766)

Neoclassicism

Carl Ludvig Engel Carl Ludvig Engel, or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel (3 July 1778 – 14 May 1840), was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki, which he helped rebuild. His works include most of the buildings around the capital's monumental ...

(1778–1840) * Frederick William von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800) * Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800) * Carl von Gontard (1731–1791) *

Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Le ...

(1784–1864) * Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808) *

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassic ...

(1781–1841) also a painter * Paul Ludwig Simon (1771–1815) also a scientist * Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826)

Romanesque revival ()

Heinrich Hübsch Heinrich Hübsch (9 February 1795 – 3 April 1863) was a German architect. After studies in Heidelberg (1813–15) and at Friedrich Weinbrenner's school of architecture in Karlsruhe (1815–17) he traveled extensively in Greece and Italy ( ...

(1795–1863) * August Soller (1805–1853)

Historicism

Hermann Eggert Georg Peter Hermann Eggert (3 January 1844 – 12 March 1920) was a German architect. He designed important public buildings such as the Frankfurt Main Station and the New Town Hall in Hannover, often in the style of Neo-Renaissance. Career Bo ...

(1844–1920) * Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847) * Richard Lucae (1829–1877) * Georg Hermann Nicolai (1812–1881) *

Franz Heinrich Schwechten Franz Heinrich Schwechten (12 August 1841 – 11 August 1924) was one of the most famous German architects of the Wilhelmine era, and contributed to the development of historicist architecture. Life Schwechten was born in Cologne, the son of a ...

(1841–1924) * Gottfried Semper (1803–1879)

Architectural realism

* Constantin Lipsius (1832–1894) *

Paul Wallot Johann Paul Wallot (26 June 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein – 10 August 1912 Bad Schwalbach) was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894. He also built the adjacent ...

(1841–1912)

Art Nouveau ()

* Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) also an urban designer *

Carl Moritz Carl Moritz (27 April 1863 – 23 August 1944) was a German architect and real-estate entrepreneur. Based in Cologne, he built the Cologne opera house of 1902, and various banks, theatres and churches in Germany. Career Born in Berlin, ...

(1863–1944)

Traditionalism

* Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)

Expressionism

* Dominikus Böhm (1880–1955) * Fritz Höger (1877–1949) * Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) *

Hans Poelzig Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer. Life Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to Countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman. Uncerta ...

(1869–1936) * Alfred Runge (1881–1946) * Eduard Scotland (1885–1945)

Organic

* Hugo Haring (1882–1958) *

Hans Scharoun Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (20 September 1893 – 25 November 1972) was a German architect best known for designing the Berliner Philharmonie (home to the Berlin Philharmonic) and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important ...

(1893–1972)

Neue Moderne

* Carl Weidemeyer (1882–1976) * Peter Behrens (1868–1940) * Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978) * Walter Hohmann (1880–1945) also a civil engineer * Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946) *

Paul Schneider-Esleben Paul Maximilian Heinrich Schneider von Esleben (28 August 1915 – 19 May 2005), known as Paul Schneider-Esleben, was a German architect. Early life Paul Schneider-Esleben was born in 1915 in Düsseldorf to Elisabeth and Franz Schneider-Esleben, ...

(1915–2005) * Bruno Taut (1880–1938) * Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951)

Bauhaus

* Edmund Collein (1906–1992) * Erich Consemüller (1902–1957) *

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one ...

(1883–1969) *

Lucy Hillebrand Lucy Hillebrand (6 March 1906, in Mainz – 14 September 1997, in Göttingen) was a German architect. Biography After growing up in an artistic milieu in Mainz, she went on to study architecture under Dominikus Böhm in Cologne. As a result of he ...

(1906–1997) * Konrad Püschel (1907–1997) * Lotte Stam-Beese (1903–1988)

Nationalism

* Richard Ermisch (1885–1960), architect * Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), architect * Franz Ruff (1906–1979), architect * Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect *

Paul Troost Paul Ludwig Troost (17 August 1878 – 21 January 1934) was a German architect. A favourite master builder of Adolf Hitler from 1930, his Neoclassical designs for the ''Führerbau'' and the ''Haus der Kunst'' in Munich influenced the style of N ...

(1878–1934), architect

Internationalism

Stephan Braunfels Stephan Braunfels (born August 1, 1950) is a German architect. Biography Stephan Braunfels was born on August 1, 1950. He completed his studies at the Technical University of Munich in 1975 and established his office in Munich in 1978. He is ...

(born 1950) * Dörte Gatermann (born 1956) *

Helmut Jahn Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liber ...

(1940–2021) also a designer * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)

Deconstructivism

Günther Behnisch Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse '' gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". G ...

(1922–2010) * Elisabeth Böhm (1921–2012) * Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021)

High tech

Frei Otto Frei Paul Otto (; 31 May 1925 – 9 March 2015) was a German architect and structural engineer noted for his use of lightweight structures, in particular tensile and membrane structures, including the roof of the Olympic Stadium in Munich for ...

(1925–2015) also a research scientist

Eco tech

Hans Kollhoff Hans Kollhoff (born 18 September 1946 in Bad Lobenstein, Thuringia) is a German architect and professor. He is a representative of Postmodern and New Classical Architecture, as well as a protagonist of New Urbanism. Early life Kollhoff spent the ...

(born 1946)

Contemporary modernist

Annabelle Selldorf Annabelle Selldorf (born 1960) is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and the recipient of the 2016 AIA ...

(born early 1960s) architect in New York * Sergei Enwerowitsch Tschoban (born 1962) Russian-born

Sustainable architecture

Anna Heringer Anna Heringer (born 13 October 1977 in Rosenheim) is a German architect. A proponent of sustainable architecture, she has designed a number of notable buildings including the METI Handmade School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh.

(born 1977)

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