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(zhäN lw shärl gärny ´) (KEY) , 1825–98, French architect, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Grand Prix de Rome (1848). He was a...
(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...
1859–1934, American architect, b. Zanesville, Ohio, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Europe. In 1880 he entered the emplo...
(g ´ch t) (KEY) , 1832–1907, American ethnologist, b. Switzerland. He was trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, and after h...
1682–1754, English architect, b. Scotland, studied in Rome under Carlo Fontana. Returning to England in 1709, he was appointed a member of the commi...
(zhäk äNzh gäbr l´) (KEY) , 1698–1782, French architect of the classical tradition. Descendant of a long line of architects, he ranks as one of...