The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project ; only one museum employee knew why he was there.

Remey trained as an architect at Cornell University ( 1893 – 1896 ), and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France ( 1896 – 1903 ) where he first learned of the Bahá ' í Faith.

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

* January 1903: the Moulin Rouge reopened after renovation and improvement work carried out by Niermans, the most “ Parisian ” architect of the Belle Époque ( amongst other works he designed the brasserie Mollard, the Paris Casino, the Folies Bergère in Paris, the Palace Hôtel in Ostend in Belgium, the rebuilding of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz and the creation of the Hôtel Négresco on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice ).

As the 15th child, and particularly troublesome to his elder siblings, he was sent to Paris to train as an architect.

Making a trip to Paris in 1665, Wren studied the architecture, which had reached a climax of creativity, and perused the drawings of Bernini, the great Italian sculptor and architect.

Under the direction of architect Viollet-le-Duc, famous for his work on Notre-Dame de Paris, church monuments that had been taken to the Museum of French Monuments were returned to the church.

In 1826, Semper travelled to Paris in order to work for the architect Franz Christian Gau, and he was present when the July Revolution of 1830 broke out.

She redecorated the interior, first working with the French architect and designer Armand-Albert Rateau ( who also oversaw exterior alterations as well as adding interior features such as a 16th century-style carved-oak staircase ) and then, later, with the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin.

The Opéra de Monte-Carlo or Salle Garnier was built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier, who also designed the Paris opera house now known as the Palais Garnier.

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

Barry spent two months in Paris in 1855 representing, along with his friend and fellow architect Charles Robert Cockerell, English architecture on the juries of the Exposition Universelle ( 1855 ).

Louis-Pierre Baltard ( 9 July 1764 – 22 January 1846 ) was a French architect, and engraver, born in Paris.

Her sister, the architect Adrienne Gorska, designed her Paris apartment and studio in the Art Deco style, complete with chrome-plated furniture.

His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris ’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he briefly studied painting there under Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1864.

* Parc de la Villette in Paris has a number of modern follies by architect Bernard Tschumi.

The architect, Thomas U. Walter, designed a double dome interior based on that of the Panthéon in Paris.

Housed in the Caserne des Célestins, Paris, built in 1895-1901, designed by the renowned French architect Jacques Hermant.

Made with the help of the Hungarian architect Istvan Seboek for the German Werkbund exhibition held in Paris during the summer of 1930, it is often interpreted as a kinetic sculpture.

In the 1880s, the Paris architect Pierre-Henri Picq built the Schoelcher Library, an iron and glass structure that was exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens during the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

Returning to Halifax from Paris he entered into a partnership with Sydney-born architect Sydney P. Dumaresq.

The Villa was built by famous French architect Charles Garnier who also built the Opera of Paris.

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.