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Medieval architects
- Arnolfo di CambioArnolfo di CambioArnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....
- Pietro BaseggioPietro BaseggioPietro Baseggio was a fourteenth century architect and sculptor in Venice. In 1361, he was named superintendent of construction for the Doge's palace, and helped in construction along with Filippo Calendario.*John Ruskin. Stones of Venice....
- Cristoforo da Bolzano
- Giotto di BondoneGiotto di BondoneGiotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages...
- Arnolfo di CambioArnolfo di CambioArnolfo di Cambio was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Arnolfo was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany....
- Giovanni di Cecco
- Jacopo CelegaJacopo CelegaJacopo Celega was a fourteenth-century Italian architect. Little is known of Calegna's biography, but some of his work remains today. Around 1330 he took over construction of the Venetian church Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari – normally referred to only as the Frari – work...
- Pier Paolo Celega
- Frà Giovanni degli Eremitani
- Andrea OrcagnaAndrea OrcagnaAndrea di Cione di Arcangelo , better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. A student of Andrea Pisano as well as Giotto di Bondone, his younger brothers Jacopo di Cione and Nardo di Cione were also artists...
- Andrea PisanoAndrea PisanoAndrea Pisano , also known as Andrea da Pontedera, was an Italian sculptor and architect.-Biography:Andrea Pisano was born at Pontedera, where he also died....
- Giovanni PisanoGiovanni PisanoGiovanni Pisano was an Italian sculptor, painter and architect. Son of the famous sculptor Nicola Pisano, he received his training in the workshop of his father....
- Giovanni di Simone
Renaissance architects
- Aloisio da MilanoAloisio da MilanoAloisio da Milano, also known as Aloisio da Carezano, Aleviz Milanets and Aleviz Fryazin was an Italian architect who worked in Muscovy....
- Aloisio the NewAloisio the NewAloisio the New, known in Russian as Aleviz Novyi or Aleviz Fryazin, was an Italian Renaissance architect invited by Ivan III to work in Moscow...
- Pietro Paolo Agabita
- Baccio D'AgnoloBaccio D'AgnoloBaccio D'Agnolo , born Bartolomeo Baglioni, was an Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect from Florence."Baccio"'is an abbreviation of Bartolomeo, and "d'Agnolo" refers to Angelo, his father's name...
- Giovanni Battista Aleotti
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Galeazzo AlessiGaleazzo AlessiGaleazzo Alessi was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali.For a number of years he lived in Genoa...
- Bartolomeo AmmanatiBartolomeo AmmanatiBartolomeo Ammannati was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture...
- Donato BramanteDonato BramanteDonato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St...
- BramantinoBramantinoBartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino , was an Italian painter and architect, mainly active in his native Milan.-Biography:...
- Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...
- Michelangelo BuonarrotiMichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
- Bernardo BuontalentiBernardo BuontalentiBernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.-Biography:Buontalenti was born in Florence....
- Domenico Curtoni
- Giovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio Dosio was an Italian architect and sculptor.He was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome and Florence , with some commissions that took him to Naples.During his early years in Rome, where he...
- Giacomo del DucaGiacomo del DucaGiacomo Del Duca was an Italian sculptor and architect during the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period...
- Luca FancelliLuca FancelliLuca Fancelli was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:Fancelli was born in Settignano, a fraction of Florence...
- Giovanni Maria FalconettoGiovanni Maria FalconettoGiovanni Maria Falconetto was an Italian architect and artist. He designed the first fully Renaissance building in Padua, the Loggia Cornaro, a garden loggia for Alvise Cornaro built as a Roman doric arcade...
- Aristotile FioravantiAristotile FioravantiRidolfo "Aristotele" Fioravanti was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer. His surname is sometimes given as Fieraventi. Russian versions of his name are Фиораванти, Фьораванти, Фиеравенти, Фиораванте....
- Domenico FontanaDomenico FontanaDomenico Fontana was a Swiss-born Italian architect of the late Renaissance.-Biography:200px|thumb|Fountain of Moses in Rome....
- Girolamo GengaGirolamo GengaGirolamo Genga was an Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance, Mannerist style.- Biography :Genga was born in 1507 in a region near Urbino. According mainly to Giorgio Vasari's biography, by age thirteen Genga had gained an apprenticeship in Orvieto under Luca Signorelli...
- Pietro di Giacomo CataneoPietro di Giacomo CataneoPietro di Giacomo Cataneo was an Italian architect.He is principally remembered for his I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura , a set of four books on architectural theory. In order, the books cover the design of fortified cities, materials, ecclesiastical architecture and domestic architecture...
- Orazio GrassiOrazio GrassiOrazio Grassi was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and architect.Canonical pertaining to Society of Jesus, he was one of the authors in controversy with Galileo Galilei on the nature of the comets....
- Carlo Lambardi
- Pirro LigorioPirro LigorioPirro Ligorio was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer.-Biography:Ligorio was born in Naples. In 1534 he moved to Rome, where he developed his interest in antiquities, and was named superintendent to the ancient monuments by the Popes Pius IV and Paul IV...
- Pietro LombardoPietro LombardoPietro Lombardo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona , he was the father of Tullio Lombardo and Antonio Lombardo....
- Martino Longhi the ElderMartino Longhi the ElderMartino Longhi the Elder was an Italian architect, the father of Onorio Longhi and the grandfather of Martino Longhi the Younger.He was born in Viggiù into a family of architects, and initially worked in Germany for the Altemps family, who were relatives of the Milanese Borromeo...
- Onorio LonghiOnorio LonghiOnorio Longhi was an Italian architect, the father of Martino Longhi the Younger and the son of Martino Longhi the Elder.Born in Viggiù, Lombardy, Longhi began as assistant for his father, and inherited the latter's commission at his death in 1591...
- Luciano LauranaLuciano LauranaLuciano Laurana was a Croatian or Italian architect and engineer from the historic Vrana settlement near the town of Zadar in Dalmatia, Croatia. After education by his father Martin in Vrana settlement, he worked mostly in Italy during the late 15th century...
(born in Dalmatia) - Giovanni Ambrogio Magenta
- Annibale MaggiAnnibale MaggiAnnibale Maggi was an Italian architect of the Renaissance period. He designed and help build the loggia del Consiglio in Padua in 1493, and was the architect of the house of San Giovanni degli Specchi. Also known as Annibale Bassano or da Bassano....
known as Da Bassano - Giuliano da MaianoGiuliano da MaianoGiuliano da Maiano was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated.- Biography :...
- Antonio ManettiAntonio ManettiAntonio Manetti was an Italian mathematician and architect from Florence. He was also the biographer of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi....
- Fabio MangoneFabio MangoneFabio Mangone was an Italian architect.Born in Caravaggio, he was a pupil of Alessandro Bisnati, and succeeded him as architect for the Duomo of Milan...
- Francesco di Giorgio Martini
- FilareteFilareteAntonio di Pietro Averlino , also "Averulino", known as Filarete was an Italian Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist from Florence. He is perhaps best remembered for his design of the ideal city of Sforzinda, the first ideal city plan of the Renaissance.-Biography:Antonio di...
- Michelozzo Michelozzi
- Nanni di Baccio BigioNanni di Baccio BigioNanni di Baccio Bigio, a pseudonym of Giovanni Lippi , was an Italian architect of the 16th century.Nanni was described as a "versatile" architect, who had originally set out to be a sculptor working under Raffaello da Montelupo. After arriving in Rome, he made a good copy of Michelangelo's Pietà...
- Andrea PalladioAndrea PalladioAndrea Palladio was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture...
- Alfonso ParigiAlfonso ParigiAlfonso Parigi the Younger was an Italian architect and scenographer, the son of Giulio Parigi.He worked mainly in Florence, beginning at a very early age as his father's assistant...
- Baldassarre Peruzzi
- Petrok MalyPetrok MalyPetrok Maly, also known as Petrok Maly Fryazin , was an Italian architect, who arrived in Moscow together with the envoys of Pope Clement VII in 1528....
- Simone del PollaioloSimone del PollaioloSimone del Pollaiolo is a well known Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca .Pollaiolo was born in Florence, he had two famous brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo .Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca...
- Antonio da PonteAntonio da PonteAntonio da Ponte was an Venetian architect and engineer, most famous for his rebuilding the Rialto Bridge in that city.Da Ponte was head architect of the rebuilding of the Ducal Palace that was badly damaged by fire in 1574. After the original wooden structure of the Rialto Bridge had collapsed...
- Flaminio PonzioFlaminio PonzioFlaminio Ponzio was an Italian architect during the late-Renaissance or so-called Mannerist period, serving in Rome as the architect for Pope Paul V.Ponzio was born in Viggiù near Varese, and he died in Rome...
- Giacomo della PortaGiacomo della PortaGiacomo della Porta was an Italian architect and sculptor, who worked on many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica. He was born at Porlezza, Lombardy and died in Rome.-Biography:...
- Giorgio da Sebenico
- Giulio RomanoGiulio RomanoGiulio Romano was an Italian painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism...
- Bernardo RossellinoBernardo RossellinoBernardo di Matteo del Borra Gamberelli , better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino...
- Antonio da Sangallo the ElderAntonio da Sangallo the ElderAntonio da Sangallo the Elder was an Italian Renaissance architect who specialized in the design of fortifications.-Biography:Antonio da Sangallo was born at Florence....
- Antonio da Sangallo the YoungerAntonio da Sangallo the Youngerthumb|250px|The church of Santa Maria di Loreto near the [[Trajan's Market]] in [[Rome]], considered Sangallo's masterwork.thumb|250px|View of St. Patrick's Well in [[Orvieto]]....
- Giuliano da SangalloGiuliano da SangalloGiuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...
- Jacopo SansovinoJacopo SansovinoJacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity...
- Michele Sanmicheli
- Raffaello Santi (Raphael)
- Vincenzo ScamozziVincenzo Scamozzithumb|250px|Portrait of Vincenzo Scamozzi by [[Paolo Veronese]]Vincenzo Scamozzi was a Venetian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century...
- Sebastiano SerlioSebastiano SerlioSebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau...
- Alessandro Tesauro
- Aurelio Trezzi
- Giorgio VasariGiorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
- Giacomo Barozzi da VignolaGiacomo Barozzi da VignolaGiacomo Barozzi da Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome...
- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
- Ascanio Vittozzi
Baroque architects
- Giovan Battista AleottiGiovan Battista AleottiGiovan Battista Aleotti was an Italian architect.Aleotti was born in Argenta. He completed, with the assistance of his pupil Giovanni Battista Magnani, the plan of the Bolognese church of Santa Maria del Quartiere...
- Alessandro AlgardiAlessandro AlgardiAlessandro Algardi was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.-Early years:...
- Marco Arconio
- Alonzo di Benedetto
- Gian Lorenzo BerniniGian Lorenzo BerniniGian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect...
- Francesco BorrominiFrancesco BorrominiFrancesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.A keen student of the architecture of Michelangelo and the ruins of...
- Pietro da CortonaPietro da CortonaPietro da Cortona, by the name of Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and also one of the key architects in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important decorator...
- Giovanni Pietro de PomisGiovanni Pietro de PomisGiovanni Pietro de Pomis was an Italian painter, medailleur , architect and fortress master builder. His works show a marked influence of late-Mannerism.- Biography :De Pomis was apparently a pupil of the Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto...
- Carlo Francesco Dotti
- Cosimo FanzagoCosimo FanzagoCosimo Fanzago was an Italian architect and sculptor, generally considered the greatest such artist of the Baroque period in Naples, Italy.-Biography:...
- Carlo FontanaCarlo FontanaCarlo Fontana was an Italian architect, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture.-Biography:...
- Gerolamo Frigimelica
- Ferdinando FugaFerdinando FugaFerdinando Fuga was an Italian architect, whose main works were realized in Rome and Naples in the Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Florence, he began to work in that city as a pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini. In 1717 he moved to Rome, to continue his apprentice studies...
- Rosario GagliardiRosario GagliardiRosario Gagliardi was a Sicilian architect born in Syracuse. He was one of the leading architects working in the Sicilian Baroque. In spite of never leaving Sicily his work showed great understanding of the style, but was a progression from the style of baroque as deployed by Bernini...
- Alessandro Galilei
- Galli Bibiena family:Ferdinando, Antonio, Giuseppe, Alessandro
- Antonio GherardiAntonio GherardiAntonio Gherardi was an Italian painter, architect, and sculptor of the Baroque style, active mainly in and near Rome and his native city of Rieti....
- Andrea GigantiAndrea GigantiAndrea Giganti was a Sicilian architect of the Sicilian Baroque era. He was born in Trapani in 1731; in his youth he studied architecture under Giovanni Biagio Amico...
- Giovanni Battista GisleniGiovanni Battista GisleniGiovanni Battista Gisleni was an Italian Baroque architect, stage designer, theater director, singer, and musician at the court of three Polish kings of the Vasa dynasty: Zygmunt III Waza, Władysław IV Waza and Jan II Kazimierz in the years 1630-1668...
- Giovanni Francesco GrimaldiGiovanni Francesco GrimaldiGiovanni Francesco Grimaldi was an Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the place of his birth. Grimaldi was a relative of the Carracci family, under whom it is presumed he first apprenticed....
- Guarino Guarini
- Stefano IttarStefano IttarStefano Ittar was a Polish-Italian architect.-Biography:Ittar was born in Ovruch , where his father, a member of one of Italy's aristocratic families the Guidone de Hittar, had fled following a disagreement with the Grand Duke of Tuscany.While Ittar was still young his family moved to Rome, where...
(born in Poland) - Filippo JuvarraFilippo JuvarraFilippo Juvarra was an Italian architect and stage set designer.-Biography:Filippo Juvarra was an Italian Baroque architect working in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was born in Messina, Sicily, to a family of goldsmiths and engravers...
- Paolo LabisiPaolo LabisiPaolo Labisi was an 18th century Sicilian architect. He worked principally in the Baroque style. His most notable works are in the Sicilian town of Noto, which was completely rebuilt on a new site following the earthquake of 1693. Labisi's work later came to be known under the banner of Sicilian...
- Giulio LassoGiulio LassoGiulio Lasso was an Italian architect, best known for his work in Palermo, Sicily. He was born in Florence.His most famous work is the Quattro Canti, an eight sided piazza in the centre of Palermo...
- Giacomo LeoniGiacomo LeoniGiacomo Leoni , also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been an inspiration for Andrea Palladio. Leoni thus served as a prominent exponent of Palladianism in English...
- Baldassarre LonghenaBaldassarre Longhenathumb|250px|Tower of the church [[Santa Maria del Soccorso]], [[Rovigo]].Baldassarre Longhena was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period....
- Martino Longhi the YoungerMartino Longhi the Youngerthumb|300px|Detail of the façade of [[Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi]] in [[Rome]].Martino Longhi the Younger was an Italian architect of the Baroque period active in Rome, in a milieu when the most prominent competition for commissions came from no less than Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco...
- Carlo MadernoCarlo MadernoCarlo Maderno was a Swiss-Italian architect, born in Ticino, who is remembered as one of the fathers of Baroque architecture. His façades of Santa Susanna, St. Peter's Basilica and Sant'Andrea della Valle were of key importance in the evolution of the Italian Baroque...
- Domenico MartinelliDomenico MartinelliDomenico Martinelli was an Italian architect who worked for Carlo Fontana during 1678. He was an evident figure in the shaping of Baroque style in the North Alps. In 2010 a musical tribute called "Project Martinelli" was performed to him in Munich.-Biography:He was born in Lucca, Tuscany and...
- Paolo Maruscelli
- Ottavio Mascherino
- Giorgio MassariGiorgio MassariGiorgio Massari was a prominent late-Baroque Venetian architect. Among his masterpieces are the Chiesa dei Gesuati and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky...
- Giovan Battista MontanoGiovan Battista Montano-Life and work:Montano was born in Milan, and was active in Rome from the time of the pontificate of Gregory XIII primarily as a sculptor and a wood carver...
- Tomasso NapoliTomasso NapoliTommaso Maria Napoli was an Italian architect, engineer and mathematician.-Biography:Born at Palermo, he received his training under Andrea Cirrincione as a novitiate in the Convento di San Domenico. His first architectural experience was in the construction of the church of San Domenico designed...
- Giovanni Battista Nolli
- Andrea PalmaAndrea PalmaAndrea Palma was an 18th century Sicilian architect, working in the Baroque style. He is credited with being one of the most notable architects of the Sicilian Baroque movement....
- Giovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini was a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ....
- Giovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" .-His Life:...
- Filippo RaguzziniFilippo RaguzziniFilippo Raguzzini was an Italian architect best known for a range of buildings constructed during the reign of Benedict XIII.-Biography:...
- Girolamo RainaldiGirolamo RainaldiGirolamo Rainaldi was an Italian architect who worked on the whole in a conservative Mannerist style, often with collaborating architects, yet was a successful competitor of Bernini...
- Carlo RainaldiCarlo RainaldiCarlo Rainaldi was an Italian architect of the Baroque period.Born in Rome, Rainaldi was one of the leading architects of 17th century Rome, known for a certain grandeur in his designs. He worked at first with his father, Girolamo Rainaldi, a late Mannerist architect in Rome. After his father's...
- Pietro RosaPietro RosaPietro Rosa was an Italian architect and topographer. He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in Rome....
- Mattia de RossiMattia de RossiMattia de Rossi was an Italian architect of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and surrounding towns.Born in Rome to a family of architects and artisans, he rose to prominence under the mentorship of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and even inherited the position as chief architect of the Fabbrica di...
- Nicola SabbatiniNicola SabbatiniNicola Sabbatini , also known as Niccolò Sabbatini or Nicola Sabbattini, was an Italian architect of the Baroque....
- Nicola SalviNicola SalviNicola Salvi or Niccolò Salvi was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi Fountain in Rome, where he was born and died. His work is in the late Roman Baroque style. In addition to the Trevi Fountain, Salvi did minor works such as churches and the enlargement of the Odescalchi Palace with...
- Francesco de SanctisFrancesco de Sanctis (architect)Francesco De Sanctis was a late Baroque Italian architect, most notable for his design of the Spanish Steps in Rome in collaboration with Alessandro Specchi...
- Ferdinando SanfeliceFerdinando SanfeliceFerdinando Sanfelice was an Italian late Baroque architect and painter.Sanfelice was born in Naples and died there. He was one of the principal architects in Naples in the first half of the 18th century. He was a student of Francesco Solimena.Sanfelice was known primarily for temporary displays...
- Giuseppe SardiGiuseppe SardiGiuseppe Sardi was an Italian architect active in Rome. He was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, Marche which was then part of the Papal States...
- Giovanni Battista Scapitta
- Vincenzo SinatraVincenzo SinatraVincenzo Sinatra was a Sicilian architect. He was a pupil of Rosario Gagliardi. Sinatra worked in both the Baroque style and later in Neo-Classical style....
- Giovanni Battista SoriaGiovanni Battista Soriathumb|250px|Façade of [[Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli]] in [[Rome]], with the [[Torre delle Milizie]] behind.Giovanni Battista Soria was an Italian architect who lived and worked mostly in Rome....
- Alessandro SpecchiAlessandro SpecchiAlessandro Specchi was an Italian architect and engraver.Born in Rome, he trained as an architect under Carlo Fontana. He also specialized as an engraver and made a well known series of plates for prints of vedute or views of Rome As an architect, he was influenced by Francesco Borromini...
- Giovanni Battista VaccariniGiovanni Battista VaccariniGiovanni Battista Vaccarini was an Italian architect, notable for his work in the Sicilian Baroque style in his homeland during the period of massive rebuilding following the earthquake of 1693. Many of his principal works can be found in the area in and around Catania.- Biography :Vaccarini was...
- Luigi VanvitelliLuigi VanvitelliLuigi Vanvitelli was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.-Biography:Vanvitelli was born at Naples, the son of a Dutch painter of land and...
- Giuseppe VasiGiuseppe VasiGiuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and architect, best known for his vedute.He was born in Corleone, Sicily and later moved to Rome. From 1746 to 1761 he published a series of ten volumes including 240 engravings of vedute of Rome...
- Bernardo VittoneBernardo VittoneBernardo Antonio Vittone was an Italian architect and writer. He was one of the three most important Baroque architects active in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy; the other two were Filippo Juvarra and Guarino Guarini. The youngest of the three, Vittone was the only one who was born in the...
- Giacomo ZanettiGiacomo ZanettiGiacomo Zanetti , born probably in Lugano, was an Italian master builder and architect active in Casale Monferrato.He was responsible for some of the most interesting baroque buildings constructed in the town during the years following the House of Savoy’s 1708 acquisition of the Duchy of...
Neoclassical and eclectic architects
- Pietro Camporese the ElderPietro Camporese the Elder-Life:He was the first of a family of architects active in Rome in the 18th and 19th centuries. His sons Giuseppe and Giulio are recorded as collaborating with their father on the building of the Duomo at Subiaco, and his grandchild Pietro Camporese the Younger , who led the reconstruction of...
- Pietro Camporese the YoungerPietro Camporese the YoungerPietro Camporese the Younger was an Italian neoclassical architect. He was the grandson of the architect Pietro Camporese the Elder. One of his major commissions was the Palazzo Wedekind in Rome....
- Alessandro Galilei
- Costantino FiaschettiCostantino FiaschettiCostantino Fiaschetti was an 18th-century Roman architect.He is mostly known today for the Fountain in the Piazza del Mercato in Spoleto, designed by him in 1746....
- Giuseppe JappelliGiuseppe JappelliGiuseppe Jappelli was an Italian neoclassic architect and engineer who was born and died in Venice. He studied at the Clementine Academy in Bologna. In 1836–7, he traveled to France and England, an experience that would be formative on his career as a park architect. His best known work is...
- Giuseppe Venanzio MarvugliaGiuseppe Venanzio MarvugliaGiuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia was an Italian architect.He received his first training in his native Palermo. This was followed by a period in Rome from 1747 to 1759...
- Giuseppe MengoniGiuseppe MengoniGiuseppe Mengoni was an Italian architect. He designed the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. He died by accident, falling off the roof of the gallery he had built....
- Giuseppe PiermariniGiuseppe PiermariniGiuseppe Piermarini was an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala, Milan , which remains the work by which he is remembered. Indeed, "il Piermarini" serves as an occasional euphemism for the celebrated opera house...
- Giovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista PiranesiGiovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" .-His Life:...
- Giuseppe PiermariniGiuseppe PiermariniGiuseppe Piermarini was an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala, Milan , which remains the work by which he is remembered. Indeed, "il Piermarini" serves as an occasional euphemism for the celebrated opera house...
- Francesco Maria Preti
- Bartolomeo RastrelliBartolomeo RastrelliFrancesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli was an Italian architect naturalized Russian. He developed an easily recognizable style of Late Baroque, both sumptuous and majestic...
- Antonio Rinaldi
- Carlo RossiCarlo Rossi (architect)Carlo di Giovanni Rossi, was an Italian architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia. He was the author of many classical buildings and architectural ensembles in Saint Petersburg and its environments...
- Giuseppe SacconiGiuseppe SacconiGiuseppe Sacconi was an Italian architect. He is best known as the designer of the monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, in the centre of Rome.He was born in Montalto delle Marche. He worked on the restoration of the Basilica di Loreto...
- Domenico TrezziniDomenico TrezziniDomenico Trezzini was a Swiss Italian architect who elaborated the Petrine Baroque style of Russian architecture.Domenico was born in Astano, near Lugano, in the Italian-speaking Ticino . He probably studied in Rome...
- Giacomo QuarenghiGiacomo QuarenghiGiacomo Quarenghi was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg.- Career in Italy :...
- Giuseppe ValadierGiuseppe ValadierGiuseppe Valadier was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy.-Biography:...
- Antonio VisentiniAntonio Visentinithumb|220px|View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, by Antonio Visentini .Antonio Visentini was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy...
20th century architects
- ArchizoomArchizoomArchizoom Association was a design studio founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy, by four architects: Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi; and two designers: Dario Bartolini and Lucia Bartolini....
with architects Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi - Pietro BelluschiPietro BelluschiPietro Belluschi was an American architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings....
- Luca BeltramiLuca BeltramiLuca Beltrami was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects. He was a student of Camillo Boito at the Brera Academy...
- Ernesto BasileErnesto BasileErnesto Basile was an Italian architect and an exponent of modernism and Art Nouveau. He became well-known because of his stylistic fusion of ancient, medieval and modern elements. He was one of the pioneers of Art Nouveau in Italy.- Life :He was born on January 31, 1857 in Palermo...
- Achille CastiglioniAchille CastiglioniAchille Castiglioni was a renowned Italian industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials...
- Raimondo Tommaso D'AroncoRaimondo Tommaso D'AroncoRaimondo Tommaso D’Aronco was an Italian architect renowned for his building designs in the style of Art Nouveau. He was the chief palace architect to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in Istanbul, Turkey for 16 years.- Early years :...
- Giancarlo De CarloGiancarlo De CarloGiancarlo De Carlo was an Italian architect.He was born in Genoa, Liguria in 1919. He trained as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and architecture...
- Emanuele FianoEmanuele FianoEmanuele Fiano is a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the centre-left Partito Democratico...
- Romaldo GiurgolaRomaldo GiurgolaRomaldo Giurgola AO is an Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Galatina, in the south of Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome...
- Giorgio GrassiGiorgio GrassiGiorgio Grassi , is one of Italy's most important architects. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to...
- Pietro LombardiPietro LombardiPietro Lombardi was an Italian wrestler. He won gold for Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the flyweight division.- References :...
- Giovanni MichelucciGiovanni MichelucciGiovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner and engraver. He was one of the major Italian architects of the 20th century, known for notable projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole....
- Carlo MollinoCarlo Mollino- Biography :Born in Turin, Piedmont, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, an engineer. As he grew up, Carlo Mollino became interested in a variety of topics that were as outrageous as his art, such as design, architecture, the occult, and race cars....
- Pier Luigi NerviPier Luigi NerviPier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61...
- Giuseppe PaganoGiuseppe PaganoGiuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War....
- Marcello PiacentiniMarcello PiacentiniMarcello Piacentini was an Italian architect and urban theorist.-Biography:Born in Rome, he was the son of architect Pio Piacentini...
- Pio PiacentiniPio PiacentiniPio Piacentini was an Italian architect, the father of Marcello Piacentini. He is best known for his Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.-Life:He was born in Rome and trained in the Academy of St. Luke....
- Giò PontiGiò PontiGio Ponti was one of the most important Italian architects, industrial designers, furniture designers, artists, and publishers of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
- Ernesto Nathan RogersErnesto Nathan RogersErnesto Nathan Rogers was an Italian architect, writer and educator.-Biography:Born in Trieste, Italy he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1932...
(BBPRBBPRBBPR was an architectural partnership founded in Milan, Italy in 1932.-The Partners:The partners were Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers...
) - Aldo RossiAldo RossiAldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.-Early life:...
- Antonio Sant'EliaAntonio Sant'EliaAntonio Sant'Elia was an extremely influential Italian architect.-Life:Antonio Sant'Elia was born in Como, Lombardy. A builder by training, he opened a design office in Milan in 1912 and became involved with the Futurist movement...
- Leonardo Savioli
- Carlo ScarpaCarlo ScarpaCarlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
- Attilio Spaccarelli
- SuperstudioSuperstudioSuperstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Superstudio was one of major part of the Radical architecture movement of the late 1960s...
with architects Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia - Manfredo TafuriManfredo TafuriManfredo Tafuri , an Italian architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic, was arguably the world's most important architectural historian of the past fifty years...
- Giuseppe TerragniGiuseppe TerragniGiuseppe Terragni was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism...
- Bruno ZeviBruno ZeviBruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.-University years:...
Contemporary architects
- Gae AulentiGae AulentiGae Aulenti is an Italian architect, lighting and interior designer, and industrial designer. She is well known for several large-scale museum projects, including Musée d'Orsay in Paris , the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice , and the Asian Art...
- Andrea BranziAndrea BranziAndrea Branzi is an Italian architect and designer.-Biography:Branzi was born in Florence, where he also graduated in architecture. Currently he lives and works in Milan, Italy....
- Mario Cucinella
- Marco PivaMarco Piva-Biography:Marco Piva, Italian architect and designer, was born in Milan in 1952.In 1977 he graduated at Politecnico di Milano and founded STUDIODADA in 1978, one of the design offices of the radical period....
- Massimiliano FuksasMassimiliano FuksasMassimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect, born in Rome in 1944 to an Jewish Lithuanian father and Italian Catholic mother. He received his degree in architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office. Subsequent offices were opened in Paris and Vienna...
- Vittorio GregottiVittorio GregottiVittorio Gregotti is an Italian architect, born in Novara.He is head of the Gregotti Associati studio. His studio has designed several important buildings, such as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon, the Arcimboldi Opera Theater in Milan and several university...
- Angelo MangiarottiAngelo MangiarottiAngelo Mangiarotti is an Italian architect and industrial designer.The main concept in his architecture, design and sculpture works is the rise of form through the correct use of matter and technique....
- Alessandro MendiniAlessandro MendiniAlessandro Mendini is an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines....
- Raul PantaleoRaul PantaleoRaul Pantaleo is an Italian architect, born in Milan, he lives and works in Venice and Trieste.Raul Pantaleo is one of the founder of “Studio Tamassociati”, a practice specialized in socially oriented projects in critical area, particularly emergency hospitals in Africa for the non-governmental...
- Renzo PianoRenzo PianoRenzo Piano is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize...
- Paolo PortoghesiPaolo PortoghesiPaolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome...
- Teresa Sapey
- Paolo SoleriPaolo SoleriPaolo Soleri is an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.-Early life:Soleri was born in Turin, Italy...
- Benedetta TagliabueBenedetta TagliabueBenedetta Tagliabue is an Italian architect. She lives and works in Barcelona.-Education:In 1989 she graduated in Venice from the "Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia" in Italy....
- Francesco Venezia