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The architect Sir John James Burnet was petitioned to put forward ambitious long-term plans to extend the building on all three sides.
It was designed by architect Louis Christiaan Kalff, while the exhibition was conceived by James Gardner.
Although he is often characterized as an " architect " exclusively, as James Beck has observed, " to single out one of Leon Battista's ' fields ' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts.
The neo-Gothic architect James Wyatt also carried out works on both the House of Lords and Commons between 1799 and 1801.
A 1793 elevation by James Hoban, the selected architect from the competition
President Washington visited Charleston, South Carolina in May 1791 on his " Southern Tour ", and saw the under-construction Charleston County Courthouse designed by Irish architect James Hoban.
** James Stirling, Scottish architect ( d. 1992 )
** James Stirling, British architect ( b. 1926 )
* June 4 – James Pennethorne, English architect ( d. 1871 )
** James Paine, English architect ( d. 1789 )
Chatelherault Country Park | Chatelherault, built by William Adam ( architect ) | William Adam in 1743 as the James Douglas-Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton | Duke of Hamilton's hunting lodge.
* date unknown – James of St. George, Savoyard military architect ( b. 1230 )
The building was designed by the British architect Sir James Stirling.
The assignment was given to Master James of Saint George, a prestigious architect whom Edward had met in Savoy on his return from the crusade.
Edward's architect, James of St. George, may well have modelled the castle on the walls of Constantinople, possibly being aware of the alternative Welsh name Caer Gystennin ; in addition, Edward was a supporter of the Crusader cause.
The south range was refaced between 1772-6 in the Georgian style by the local architect James Essex, as part of an abortive attempt to modernise the entire court in the same fashion.
The garden's architect was Todd Langstaffe-Gowan, who collaborated with James Fox and the Gardens
His older brother, James Hicks Stone ( 1886 – 1928 ), was already a practicing architect in Boston, Massachusetts, and James encouraged his younger brother to join him there.
* James Murray ( architect ) ( died 1634 ), Scottish architect
* James Renwick, Jr. ( 1818-1895 ), a successful nineteenth-century architect, was born in Bloomingdale.
United States architect James Rossant developed a master plan for the new capital in 1986, sponsored by the United Nations.
The architect James Dakin was hired to design the Capitol building in Baton Rouge.

architect and Gibbs
Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.
The choice of architect had been considered as early as 1720-Christopher Wren, John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, John James, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and James Gibbs were considered.
To the side of the Grove was a patte d ' oie, or ' Goosefoot ', three avenues which terminated by buildings including the ' Bagnio ' ( or Casino, designed by Lord Burlington and Colen Campbell ) in 1716, the ' Pagan Temple ' ( designed by the Catholic Baroque architect James Gibbs ) and the Rustic House ( designed by Lord Burlington ).
The college remained as the Old Court, chapel and a few small surrounding buildings for nearly two-hundred years until in 1724 the architect James Gibbs provided a new plan to complete the courtyard of which the chapel formed the north side.
The cross was designed by John Gibbs ( architect ) | John Gibbs and built in 1859.
Construction began in February 1714 under the architect James Gibbs, being his first major project following his return from Italy.
This home was designed by Bertrand James Waterhouse, an architect who was popular for his residential work ( he was also responsible for the design of Nutcote, the home of painter May Gibbs ).
During his life the 1st Earl commissioned Belvedere House, thought to be designed by Richard Castles but James Gibbs is most likely to have been the architect.
The memorials were designed by Cram and Ferguson and the landscape architect was George Gibbs, Jr.
The building, which is situated in the centre of the city between King's and Gonville and Caius Colleges, was designed by Sir James Burrell and built in 1722 – 1730 by architect James Gibbs in a neo-classical style using Portland stone.
In August 1713 Gibbs discovered that an architect by the name of William Dickinson was resigning as architect from the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, the commissioners included Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Thomas Archer, with the backing amongst others of the Earl of Mar and Sir Christopher Wren, Gibbs was appointed architect to the commission on the 18 November 1713, where he would have worked with Nicholas Hawksmoor, his fellow architect to the commission.
But a combination of events would ensure Gibbs was deprived of his place as architect to the commission by December 1715: Queen Anne had died and a Whig government had replaced the Tories ; and the failure of the 1715 Jacobite rising that was supported by the Earl of Mar were all factors.
In 1720 Gibbs was invited along with other architects to enter a competition to design a new church to replace the dilapidated church of St. Martin-in-the-fields, he won and on the 24th November 1720 he was appointed architect of the new church, Gibbs ' most famous building.
Horace Walpole described Gibbs as being around 1720 as " the architect most in vogue ".

architect and was
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.

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