English > designer: 5 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings). |
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| Synonym | architect |
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| Instances | Aalto, Alvar Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto | Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976) |
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| Adam, Robert Adam | Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792) |
| Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti | Italian architect and painter |
| Behrens, Peter Behrens | German architect known for his simple utilitarian factory buildings (1868-1940) |
| Berlage, Hendrik Petrus Berlage | Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934) |
| Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini | Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy |
| Bramante, Donato Bramante, Donato d'Agnolo Bramante | Great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514) |
| Breuer, Marcel Lajos Breuer | United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981) |
| Brunelleschi, Filippo Brunelleschi | Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446) |
| Bullfinch, Charles Bullfinch | United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844) |
| Burnham, Daniel Hudson Burnham | United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912) |
| Butterfield, William Butterfield | English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900) |
| Carrere, John Merven Carrere | United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911) |
| Chambers, William Chambers, Sir William Chambers | English architect (1723-1796) |
| Delorme, Philibert Delorme, de l'Orme, Philibert de l'Orme | French royal architect who built the Tuileries ... / Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570) |
| Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller | United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983) |
| Garnier, Jean Louis Charles Garnier | French architect (1825-1898) |
| Gaudi, Antonio Gaudi, Gaudi i Cornet, Antonio Gaudi i Cornet | Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926) |
| Gilbert, Cass Gilbert | United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934) |
| Giotto, Giotto di Bondone | Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style |
| Gropius, Walter Gropius | United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969) |
| Hastings, Thomas Hastings | United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929) |
| Hoffmann, Josef Hoffmann | Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956) |
| Horta, Victor Horta | Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947) |
| Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt | United States architect (1827-1895) |
| Jenny, William Le Baron Jenny | United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907) |
| Jones, Inigo Jones | One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652) |
| Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn | United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) |
| L'Enfant, Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Charles L'Enfant | United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825) |
| Labrouste, Henri Labrouste | French architect who was among the first to use metal / metal construction successfully (1801-1875) |
| Latrobe, Benjamin Henry Latrobe | United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court |
| Le Corbusier, Charles Edouard Jeanneret | French architect (born in Switzerland) (1887-1965) |
| Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect |
| Lin, Maya Lin | United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959) |
| Loos, Adolf Loos | Austrian architect (1870-1933) |
| Lutyens, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens | English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944) |
| Mansart, Francois Mansart | French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666) |
| McKim, Charles Follen McKim | United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909) |
| Mendelsohn, Erich Mendelsohn | German architect who migrated to Palestine in 1937 (1887-1953) |
| Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti | Florentine sculptor and painter and architect |
| Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe | United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969) |
| Mills, Robert Mills | United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855) |
| Nervi, Pier Luigi Nervi | Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979) |
| Palladio, Andrea Palladio | Highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580) |
| Paxton, Joseph Paxton, Sir Joseph Paxton | English architect (1801-1865) |
| Pei, I. M. Pei, Ieoh Ming Pei | United States architect (born in China in 1917) |
| Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin | English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852) |
| Richardson, Henry Hobson Richardson | United States architect (1838-1886) |
| Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen | Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923 |
| Saarinen, Eero Saarinen | United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961) |
| Soufflot, Jacques Germain Soufflot | French architect (1713-1780) |
| Speer, Albert Speer | German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981) |
| Stone, Edward Durell Stone | United States architect (1902-1978) |
| Strickland, William Strickland | United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854) |
| Sullivan, Louis Sullivan, Louis Henry Sullivan, Louis Henri Sullivan | United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924) |
| Tange, Kenzo Tange | Japanese architect (born in 1913) |
| Thornton, William Thornton | American architect (1759-1828) |
| Upjohn, Richard Upjohn | United States architect (born in England) (1802-1878) |
| Vanbrugh, John Vanbrugh, Sir John Vanbrigh | English architect (1664-1726) |
| Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi | United States architect (born in 1925) |
| Wagner, Otto Wagner | Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918) |
| White, Stanford White | United States architect (1853-1906) |
| Wren, Sir Christopher Wren | English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723) |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright | influential United States architect (1869-1959) |
| Wyatt, James Wyatt | English architect (1746-1813) |
| van de Velde, Henri van de Velde, Henri Clemens van de Velde | Belgian architect (1863-1957) |
| Narrower | Town, Ithiel Town | United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844) |
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| landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper, landscapist | someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively |
| Broader | creator | A person who grows or makes or invents / invents things |
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| Spanish | arquitecta, arquitecto, diseñador |
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| Catalan | arquitecta, arquitecte, dissenyador |
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| Verbs | design | make a design of |
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| design | create the design for |
