England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

and was there apprenticed to a builder and architect, Moody Spofford.

Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Cánovas was the real architect of the new regime of the Restoration.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

A third brother, Bruno Giacometti, was a noted architect.

Albrecht Altdorfer ( c. 1480-February 12, 1538 ) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.

The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot.

Agostino Carracci was born in Bologna, and trained at the workshop of the architect Domenico Tibaldi.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

The architect was Samuel Pepys Cockerell.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

The bridge was swept away during a flood, and later repaired by Puspagupta, the chief architect of emperor Chandragupta I.

Ordered by Sultan Bayezid I, the mosque was designed and built by architect Ali Neccar in 1396 – 1400.

In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".

It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor.

Later Blair was expelled from the crammer at Southwold for sending a dead rat as a birthday present to the town surveyor.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

His father, Samuel Polk, was a slaveholder, successful farmer and surveyor of Scots-Irish descent.

Strapped for resources, Watt was forced to take up employment first as a surveyor, then as a Civil engineer for eight years.

LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government.

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (; 1499 / 1500, Brescia – 13 December 1557, Venice ) was an Italian mathematician, engineer ( designing fortifications ), a surveyor ( of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense ) and a bookkeeper from the then-Republic of Venice ( now part of Italy ).

His father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor.

As the Shropshire county surveyor, Telford was also responsible for bridges.

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

De Camp was also a surveyor and an expert in patents.

The Maryland – Pennsylvania boundary was surveyed and marked between April 1765 and October 1767 by astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon.

Hooke was in demand to settle many of these disputes, due to his competence as a surveyor and his tact as an arbitrator.

By many accounts, it was decisive in the selection of Canberra as the site in 1908, as was a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener.

Gilbert's father was a surveyor for the United States Coast Survey.

The town was named by a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1915 after the Roman God of Fire-Vulcan.

Alfred Canning, a surveyor with the Western Australian Department of Lands and Surveys, was appointed to survey the stock route.

Babeuf was working for a land surveyor at Roye when the Revolution began.