Famous Works (Int'l) Flashcards

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The Louvre (Paris, France)

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Ieoh Ming Pei (Pritzker, 1983)

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Burj Al Arab (Burj Al Arburj Al Arab) (Dubai, UAE) 321m or 1,053 ft

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Tom Wright

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Torre Agbar Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) 142 m or 466 ft

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Jean Nouvel (Pritzker, 2008)

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Guggenheim Museum (New York City, USA)

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain)

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Antonio Gaudi

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Falling Water (Kauffman Residence) (Pennsylvania, USA)

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Crystal Cathedral (California, USA)

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Philip Johnson (Pritzker, 1979)

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Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 170 m

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Cesar Pelli and Achmad Murdijat

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The Shard (London, UK)

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Renzo Piano (Pritzker, 1998)

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Empire State Building (NYC, USA)

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William F. Lamb (Shreve, Lamb and Harmon)

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Lloyds Building (Inside-Out Building) (London, UK)

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Richard Rogers (Pritzker, 2007)

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Chrysler Building (NYC, USA)

Art Deco

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Chris Van Allen

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Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia)

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Jørn Utzon (Pritzker, 2003)

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Space Needle (Seattle, Washington) 184 m

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Edward E Carlson and John Graham

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Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao)

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Frank Gehry (Pritzker, 1989)

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Flat Iron Building (NYC)

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Daniel Burnham

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Villa Savoye (France)

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Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) and Pierre Jeanneret

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Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE) 828.9 m

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Skidmore, Owings and Merril LLP

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KK 100 (Shenzhen, China)

100 foors with 1449 ft. (441.8 ft.)

(22 floors for mall and office, the rest St. Regis Hotel)

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TFP Farrells

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Willis Tower (former Sears Tower)

1451 ft. (Chicago, illinois)

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Fazlur Rahman Khan and Bruce Graham

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Parthenon (Athens, Greece)

Doric Order

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Ictinus and Callicrates

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UN Headquarters (NYC)

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Oscar Niemeyer (Pritzker, 1988), Le Corbusier, Harrison and Abramovitz

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Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois)

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Temple of Hatshepsut (Temple of Deir El-Bahri)

(West bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings at Luxor)

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Colosseum (Rome)
Started by Vespasian Finished by Domitian
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St. Basil's Cathedral (Moscow)
Postnik Yakolev
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Taj Mahal (India)
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan