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Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and engineer whose organic architecture, including Fallingwater, reshaped the built environment.
Frederick Law Olmsted 1822–1903Engineering & ArchitectureLandscape architect who designed Central Park and established public parks as essential American civic infrastructure.
Wernher von Braun 1912–1977Engineering & ArchitectureGerman-American aerospace engineer who led the development of the Saturn V rocket that took humans to the Moon.
Robert Fulton 1765–1815Engineering & ArchitectureEngineer and inventor whose steamboat Clermont revolutionized American river transportation.
Frank Gehry 1929–2025Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped a sculptural architectural language seen in the Walt Disney Concert Hall and other landmarks.
George Westinghouse 1846–1914Engineering & ArchitectureEngineer and industrialist who championed alternating current and founded the Westinghouse Electric Company.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969Engineering & ArchitectureDirected architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and defined American modernist steel-and-glass buildings.
Jane Jacobs 1916–2006Engineering & ArchitectureWriter and activist whose defense of mixed, walkable neighborhoods transformed urban planning.
I. M. Pei 1917–2019Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect whose monumental modern buildings reshaped American civic and cultural architecture.
Robert Moses 1888–1981Engineering & ArchitectureMaster builder whose roads, parks, and public works reshaped metropolitan New York while displacing communities and entrenching car dependence.
Louis Sullivan 1856–1924Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect whose skyscraper designs and “form follows function” principle helped define modern architecture.
Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983Engineering & ArchitecturePopularized the geodesic dome and promoted resource-efficient structural design.
Eero Saarinen 1910–1961Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect whose expressive buildings and furniture became icons of postwar American modernism.
Daniel Burnham 1846–1912Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and planner whose City Beautiful vision shaped downtowns, civic centers, and urban planning.
Philip Johnson 1906–2005Engineering & ArchitectureNamed the International Style at MoMA, then built it and publicly repudiated it.
Maya Lin b. 1959Engineering & ArchitectureDesigner of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial whose work transformed American memorial architecture.
Louis Kahn 1901–1974Engineering & ArchitectureThe Salk Institute, the Kimbell and the National Assembly at Dhaka, from an architect who began at 50.
Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915Engineering & ArchitectureMechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management, reshaping industrial efficiency worldwide.
John A. Roebling 1806–1869Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped wire-rope suspension bridge design and planned the Brooklyn Bridge.
H. H. Richardson 1838–1886Engineering & ArchitectureThe first American architect with a style of his own, copied across the country and inherited by Sullivan and Wright.
George Washington Goethals 1858–1928Engineering & ArchitectureChief engineer of the Panama Canal
Theodore von Karman 1881–1963Engineering & ArchitectureAerodynamics, the Karman vortex street, and the founding of JPL
Robert Venturi 1925–2018Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Julia Morgan 1872–1957Engineering & ArchitectureFirst woman licensed as an architect in California and designer of Hearst Castle.
Washington Roebling 1837–1926Engineering & ArchitectureEngineer who oversaw the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after his father's death.
John Ericsson 1803–1889Engineering & ArchitectureSwedish-American engineer who designed the ironclad USS Monitor, revolutionizing naval warfare.
Frank Malina 1912–1981Engineering & ArchitectureLed the Caltech student rocket group that became JPL, then left America under investigation and spent a second life as an artist in Paris.
Gustavus Franklin Swift 1839–1903Engineering & ArchitectureMeatpacking pioneer who developed the refrigerated rail car, transforming the food industry.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865–1923Engineering & ArchitectureElectrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems powered the electrification of America.
Kelly Johnson 1910–1990Engineering & ArchitectureLed Lockheed's Skunk Works and designed the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft.
Joseph Strauss 1870–1938Engineering & ArchitectureChief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most photographed structures in the world.
William Le Baron Jenney 1832–1907Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and engineer who designed the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.
Othmar Ammann 1879–1965Engineering & ArchitectureSwiss-American structural engineer who designed the George Washington Bridge and other major spans.
Elmer Sperry 1860–1930Engineering & ArchitectureInventor and engineer who developed gyroscopic stabilizers for ships and aircraft.
Howard Aiken 1900–1973Engineering & ArchitecturePhysicist and engineer who designed the Harvard Mark I, an early electromechanical computer.Fazlur Rahman Khan 1929–1982Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped tubular structural systems that made the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center possible.
Ralph Modjeski 1861–1940Engineering & ArchitecturePolish-American bridge engineer who designed major spans including the Bay Bridge and Benjamin Franklin Bridge.