The canon — timeline & lineage

Imhotep -2667–-2600 Iktinos -490–-420 Apollodorus of Damascus 60–129

Anthemius of Tralles 474–558

Filippo Brunelleschi 1377–1446 Michelozzo di Bartolomeo 1396–1472 Leon Battista Alberti 1404–1472 Donato Bramante 1444–1514 Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475–1564 Mimar Sinan 1489–1588 Andrea Palladio 1508–1580 Inigo Jones 1573–1652

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola 1507–1573

Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680 Francesco Borromini 1599–1667 André Le Nôtre 1613–1700 Guarino Guarini 1624–1683 Christopher Wren 1632–1723 Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1646–1708 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656–1723 Filippo Juvara 1678–1736 Luigi Vanvitelli 1700–1773

Balthasar Neumann 1687–1753

Lancelot Brown 1716–1783 Etienne-Louis Boullee 1728–1799 Robert Adam 1728–1792 Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 1736–1806 Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 John Nash 1752–1835 John Soane 1753–1837 Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781–1841 Frederick Law Olmsted 1822–1903 Joze Plecnik 1872–1957

Charles Barry 1795–1860 Gottfried Semper 1803–1879 Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812–1852 Eugene Viollet-le-Duc 1814–1879 Richard Norman Shaw 1831–1912 William Le Baron Jenney 1832–1907 Henry Hobson Richardson 1838–1886

Otto Wagner 1841–1918 Victor Horta 1861–1947 Henry van de Velde 1863–1957 Hector Guimard 1867–1942 Joseph Maria Olbrich 1867–1908 Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868–1928 Josef Hoffmann 1870–1956

Charles Garnier 1825–1898 Cass Gilbert 1859–1934 William Van Alen 1883–1954

Hans Poelzig 1869–1936 Bruno Taut 1880–1938 Hans Scharoun 1893–1972

Gerrit Rietveld 1888–1964

Konstantin Melnikov 1890–1974

Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926 Hendrik Petrus Berlage 1856–1934 Louis Sullivan 1856–1924 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959 Peter Behrens 1868–1940 Albert Kahn 1869–1942 Adolf Loos 1870–1933 Eliel Saarinen 1873–1950 Eileen Gray 1878–1976 Raymond Hood 1881–1934 Pierre Chareau 1883–1950 Walter Gropius 1883–1969 Gunnar Asplund 1885–1940 Sigurd Lewerentz 1885–1975 Ernst May 1886–1970 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969 Erich Mendelsohn 1887–1953 Le Corbusier 1887–1965 R. M. Schindler 1887–1953 Pier Luigi Nervi 1891–1979 Richard Neutra 1892–1970 Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983 Alvar Aalto 1898–1976 Carlos Raul Villanueva 1900–1975 Hassan Fathy 1900–1989 Berthold Lubetkin 1901–1990 Jean Prouve 1901–1984 Louis Kahn 1901–1974 Arne Jacobsen 1902–1971 Lucio Costa 1902–1998 Luis Barragán 1902–1988 Marcel Breuer 1902–1981 Nikolaus Pevsner 1902–1983 Charlotte Perriand 1903–1999 Juan O'Gorman 1905–1982 Carlo Scarpa 1906–1978 Charles & Ray Eames 1907–1978 Oscar Niemeyer 1907–2012 Affonso Eduardo Reidy 1909–1964 Gordon Bunshaft 1909–1990 Roberto Burle Marx 1909–1994 Eero Saarinen 1910–1961 Felix Candela 1910–1997 Garrett Eckbo 1910–2000 John Lautner 1911–1994 Mario Pani 1911–1993 Dan Kiley 1912–2004 Minoru Yamasaki 1912–1986 Bertrand Goldberg 1913–1997 Kenzō Tange 1913–2005 Lina Bo Bardi 1914–1992 Ralph Erskine 1914–2005 Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas 1915–1985 Jane Jacobs 1916–2006 Lawrence Halprin 1916–2009 Eladio Dieste 1917–2000 I. M. Pei 1917–2019 Aldo van Eyck 1918–1999 Jørn Utzon 1918–2008 Geoffrey Bawa 1919–2003 Giancarlo De Carlo 1919–2005 Colin Rowe 1920–1999 Ian McHarg 1920–2001 Reyner Banham 1922–1988 Muzharul Islam 1923–2012 Sverre Fehn 1924–2009 Frei Otto 1925–2015 Norma Merrick Sklarek 1926–2012 Paulo Mendes da Rocha 1928–2021 Charles Correa 1930–2015 Herman Hertzberger 1932 Richard Meier 1934 Manfredo Tafuri 1935–1994 Moshe Safdie 1938

Denys Lasdun 1914–2001 Paul Rudolph 1918–1997 Alison and Peter Smithson

Kiyonori Kikutake 1928–2011 Kisho Kurokawa 1934–2007

Michael Hopkins 1935–2023 Nicholas Grimshaw 1939

Philip Johnson 1906–2005 Robert Venturi 1925–2018 James Stirling 1926–1992 Aldo Rossi 1931–1997 Arata Isozaki 1931–2022 Denise Scott Brown 1931 Hans Hollein 1934–2014 Michael Graves 1934–2015 Charles Jencks 1939–2019 Ricardo Bofill 1939–2022 Mario Botta 1943 Christian de Portzamparc 1944

Peter Eisenman 1932 Thom Mayne 1943 Bernard Tschumi 1944 Odile Decq 1955

B. V. Doshi 1927–2023 Fumihiko Maki 1928–2024 Frank Gehry 1929 Kenneth Frampton 1930 Richard Rogers 1933–2021 Álvaro Siza Vieira 1933 Norman Foster 1935 Glenn Murcutt 1936 Rafael Moneo 1937 Renzo Piano 1937 Tadao Ando 1941 Toyo Ito 1941 Peter Zumthor 1943 Rafael Vinoly 1944–2022 Rem Koolhaas 1944 Samuel Mockbee 1944–2001 Jean Nouvel 1945 Riken Yamamoto 1945 Alberto Campo Baeza 1946 Daniel Libeskind 1946 Steven Holl 1947 Herzog & de Meuron 1950 Zaha Hadid 1950–2016 Santiago Calatrava 1951 Eduardo Souto de Moura 1952 Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca 1952 David Chipperfield 1953 Elizabeth Diller 1954 Kengo Kuma 1954 Amanda Levete 1955 Lacaton & Vassal 1955 Kazuyo Sejima 1956 Ben van Berkel 1957 Shigeru Ban 1957 Benedetta Tagliabue 1963 Solano Benitez 1963 Wang Shu 1963 Jeanne Gang 1964 Bijoy Jain 1965 Diébédo Francis Kéré 1965 David Adjaye 1966 Ryue Nishizawa 1966 Alejandro Aravena 1967 Sou Fujimoto 1971 Bjarke Ingels 1974 Ma Yansong 1975 Kunle Adeyemi 1976 Vo Trong Nghia 1976 Grafton Architects RCR Arquitectes

Vitruvius

Antoni Gaudí · Charles Rennie Mackintosh · Eileen Gray · Hector Guimard · Henry van de Velde · Otto Wagner · Victor Horta

Balthasar Neumann · Christopher Wren · Filippo Juvara · Francesco Borromini · Gian Lorenzo Bernini · Guarino Guarini · Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach · Jules Hardouin-Mansart · Luigi Vanvitelli

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Marcel Breuer · Walter Gropius

Alison and Peter Smithson · B. V. Doshi · Denys Lasdun · Kenzō Tange · Le Corbusier · Louis Kahn · Paul Rudolph · Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Louis Sullivan · William Le Baron Jenney

B. V. Doshi · Bijoy Jain · Charles Correa · Diébédo Francis Kéré · Eduardo Souto de Moura · Geoffrey Bawa · Glenn Murcutt · Hassan Fathy · Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca · Kengo Kuma · Kenneth Frampton · Luis Barragán · Mario Botta · Muzharul Islam · Peter Zumthor · RCR Arquitectes · Rafael Moneo · Solano Benitez · Sverre Fehn · Tadao Ando · Wang Shu · Álvaro Siza Vieira

Bernard Tschumi · Daniel Libeskind · Elizabeth Diller · Frank Gehry · Odile Decq · Peter Eisenman · Rem Koolhaas · Thom Mayne · Zaha Hadid

Bruno Taut · Erich Mendelsohn · Hans Poelzig · Hans Scharoun

Albert Kahn · Alvar Aalto · Arne Jacobsen · Berthold Lubetkin · Charlotte Perriand · Ernst May · Jean Prouve · Juan O'Gorman · Peter Behrens · Ralph Erskine

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · Charles Barry · Eugene Viollet-le-Duc · Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Michael Hopkins · Nicholas Grimshaw · Norman Foster · Renzo Piano · Richard Rogers

Affonso Eduardo Reidy · Arne Jacobsen · Carlos Raul Villanueva · Eileen Gray · Gordon Bunshaft · I. M. Pei · Le Corbusier · Lucio Costa · Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Marcel Breuer · Mario Pani · Minoru Yamasaki · Oscar Niemeyer · Philip Johnson · R. M. Schindler · Richard Meier · Richard Neutra · Walter Gropius

Arata Isozaki · Fumihiko Maki · Kenzō Tange · Kisho Kurokawa · Kiyonori Kikutake

Charles & Ray Eames · Eero Saarinen · Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas · Lina Bo Bardi · Moshe Safdie

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux · Etienne-Louis Boullee · Gunnar Asplund · John Nash · John Soane · Joze Plecnik · Karl Friedrich Schinkel · Robert Adam · Thomas Jefferson

Jane Jacobs

Ben van Berkel · Ma Yansong · Zaha Hadid

Aldo Rossi · Arata Isozaki · Charles Jencks · Denise Scott Brown · Hans Hollein · James Stirling · Michael Graves · Philip Johnson · Ricardo Bofill · Robert Venturi

Frank Lloyd Wright

Andrea Palladio · Donato Bramante · Filippo Brunelleschi · Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola · Inigo Jones · Leon Battista Alberti · Michelangelo Buonarroti · Michelozzo di Bartolomeo

Alejandro Aravena · Bijoy Jain · Bjarke Ingels · Diébédo Francis Kéré · Frei Otto · Jeanne Gang · Kunle Adeyemi · Lacaton & Vassal · Samuel Mockbee · Shigeru Ban · Vo Trong Nghia

Adolf Loos · Josef Hoffmann · Joseph Maria Olbrich · Otto Wagner