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Inventors, engineers and architects who built the machines, networks and skylines.

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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.Frank Gehry 1929–2025Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped a sculptural architectural language seen in the Walt Disney Concert Hall and other landmarks.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969Engineering & ArchitectureDirected architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and defined American modernist steel-and-glass buildings.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.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.Robert Venturi 1925–2018Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and author of Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureJulia Morgan 1872–1957Engineering & ArchitectureFirst woman licensed as an architect in California and designer of Hearst Castle.William Le Baron Jenney 1832–1907Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and engineer who designed the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.