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1404–72, Italian architect, musician, painter, and humanist, active at the papal court, Florence, Rimini, and Mantua. Alberti was the first architec...
1895–1981, American architect and city planner, b. Worcester, Mass. Harrison designed the Trylon and Perisphere, the structures that came to symboli...
(y ´hän b rn´härt f sh´ r f n r´läkh) (KEY) , 1656–1723, the leading Austrian baroque architect. After studying in Rome he returned to Vienn...
(zhôrzh özh n´ bärôN´ smän´) (KEY) , 1809–91, French civic official and city planner. Distinguished for his bold alterations in the layout ...
1723–96, English architect, b. Gothenburg, Sweden. He traveled extensively in the East Indies and in China making drawings of gardens and buildings,...
(z kh´fr d g ´d ôn) (KEY) , 1883–1968, Swiss historian of architecture. Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin and close associate of Walter...