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  1. Victor Horta
    Since 1890, built a large number of houses in Brussels, including Tassel mansion on the streets of Turin…
     
  2. PHILIPPE Brunelleschi
    Perhaps in no other area of the artistic culture of Italy turn to a new understanding has not been to a degree associated with a great master, as in architecture, where the founder of a new direction was Brunelleschi…
     
  3. PETER Behrens
    In the works of Behrens, who has been most noticeable phenomenon in the architecture of Germany, beginning 1920′s, it is difficult to interlace progressive and reactionary tendencies of his time…
     
  4. Guarino Guarini
    It was during the stay in the capital of the Duchy of Savoy Gvarini has established its main product…
     
  5. ROBERT ADAM
    Founders, leaders of the main directions of neoclassical architecture in the British were the brothers Adam, sons of well-known architect William Adam…
     
  6. Giacomo Quarenghi
    September 20, 1744 by representatives of two well-known Italian families Giacomo Antonio Quarenghi and Maria Ursula Roth was born the second son, named after his father Giacomo Antonio…
     
  7. Henry Gibson Richardson
    Wordiness and crushed buildings did not conform to neo-emerging in the late XIX century, the quest for compositional integrity and generalized architectural forms…
     
  8. Osip Ivanovich Bove
    Bove has come a long career - from an unknown student Kremlin expedition to the "chief architect" of Moscow…
     
  9. Louis Sullivan
    American architect Louis Henry Sullivan became one of the pioneers of the rationalist architecture of the 20 th century…
     
  10. Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin
    Remarkable designer and builder of practices, an excellent painter, art theorist and teacher IA Fomin, had an enormous influence on the work of many architects…
     
  11. James Sterling
    Exploring the "phenomenon of Stirling" and stressing his undoubted artistic identity, and J…
     
  12. Francoi Mansard
    In the first half and middle of 17 th century France is experiencing a "rebirth of the Renaissance…
     
  13. Christopher Wren
    Profound changes in the whole cultural situation and, in particular, their artistic tastes in architecture, have been focused in creativity and the personality of Christopher Wren, who by their importance in the era correctly put on a par with the most remarkable English XVII Century - Shakespeare, Newton and Milton …
     
  14. Mikhail Vasilievich Posokhin
    Posokhin rightly be counted among those masters who paved the path of development of domestic architecture…
     
  15. Carlos Raul VILLANUEVA
    "The architect of two goals: to preserve the values and create new values," - wrote Carlos Raul Villanueva…
     
  16. Ivan Vladislavovich ZHOLTOVSKIY
    Perhaps no one creative person in the history of Soviet architecture did not attract such attention, did not cause such opposing views, violent disputes and conflicting assessments as a person ZHOLTOVSKOGO…
     
  17. Yuri Matveevich FELTEN
    Activities Felten came in years when the Baroque gave way to classicism, who soon became the main focus of art…
     
  18. Balthasar Neumann
    He grew up in the German part of Bohemia, where he had a good opportunity to get acquainted with the churches in the style of the Italian Baroque…
     
  19. Leon Battista Alberti
    Alberto is rightly called one of the first among the great creators of culture of the Italian Renaissance…