All Architects
Walter Wurdeman
born 1903, Wisconsin
Walter Wurdeman was an architect who designed many notable buildings in Los Angeles, California with his partner Welton Becket.
Wurdeman graduated from the University of Washington program in Architecture in 1927 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B.Arch.). After graduation he..

Wang Shu
born 1963, Urumqi
Wang Shu (Chinese: 王澍, born 4 November 1963) is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the world's top prize in architecture.

Wassili Luckhardt
born 1889, Berlin
The German architect and furniture designer Wassili Luckhardt (July 22nd, 1889 - December 2nd, 1972) was born in Berlin. Between 1908 and 1910 Wassili Luckhardt attended the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Like his brother Hans, Wassili Luckhardt belonged to several groups of artists until 1920,..
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Wells Coates
born 1895, Tokyo
Wells Wintemute Coates (December 17th, 1895 – June 17th, 1958) was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an ex-patriate Canadian architect who is best known for his work in England. His most notable work is the Isokon building in Hampstead, London.
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Welton Becket
born 1902, Seattle
Welton David Becket was an American architect who designed many buildings in Los Angeles, California. Becket was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Washington program in Architecture in 1927 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (B.Arch.). He moved to Los Angeles in..
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Wenk und Wiese Architekten
est. 2007, Berlin
Nils Wenk and Jan Wiese are two German architects who both studied architecture at the BTU Cottbus. They collaborated at their studio Wenk und Wiese from 2007 to 2009. In 2010 they both founded their own practices Wiese Architekten and Nil Wenk Architekten.
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Werner Düttmann
born 1921, Berlin
Werner Düttmann was a German architect and painter. He began his studies at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1939. His teacher after war was Hans Scharoun. Since 1951 he worked as an architect in the design office of the Berlin building administration. In 1953 he was..
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Werner Ruhnau
born 1922, Königsberg
Werner Ruhnau studied from 1941 to 1950 at the Technical University of Gdansk, the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Technical University of Karlsruhe. Ruhnau founded an office in Gelsenkirchen in 1956 where he was commissioned to build the musical theater. The theatre wa sinfluenced..
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Wespi de Meurom Romeo Architects
est. 2012, Caviano

Wessel de Jonge
born 1957, Rotterdam
Wessel de Jonge MSc (1957) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology in 1985. During his education and as extraordinary researcher at TU Delft and TU Eindhoven he has been dedicated to the survey of early 20th century architecture..
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Whitney Warren
Architect, artist, art collector, clubman, athlete. Son of George Henry Warren (1823-1892), and Mary Caroline Whitney Phoenix Warren (1832-1901). Whitney Warren began his architectural training at the Columbia University School of Architecture; later entering the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts,..
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Who Builds the City
est. 2010, Belgrade
Who Builds the City (Ko Gradi Grad / KGG) was established in 2010 in response to the urban developments in Belgrade, characterized by corrupt and mismanaged privatisation of public resources, and clientalistic government behaviour, creating ground for monopolistic private sector actors.

Wiel Arets
born 1955, Heerlen
Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer and the former Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Previously was he the Professor of Building Planning and Design at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)..
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Wilhelm Büning
born 1881, Borken
Wilhelm Büning (April 4, 1881 - August 2, 1958) was a German architect, architecture theoretician and teacher. He studied architecture at the Technical College in Dresden, Munich and Berlin and graduated in 1906. In Dresden, supported by Professors Cornelius Gurlitt, Fritz Schumacher and Hugo..
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Wilhelm Riphahn
born 1889, Cologne, Germany
Wilhelm Riphahn also Wilhelm Riphan (July 25th, 1889 – December 27th, 1963) was a German architect born in Cologne. Riphahn studied at the technical universities in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Munich, and Karlsruhe. He worked for a Siemens construction office in Berlin and in 1912 for the practice of..
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WilkinsonEyre
est. 1983, London
Chris Wilkinson founded the practice in 1983 in order to explore new directions in architecture, and together with Jim Eyre since 1986, has established it as a leading force in the design world.
[h]Chris Wilkinson[/h]
His approach has best been described in the practice monograph 'Bridging..

Will Alsop
born 1947, Northampton
Will Alsop (born December 12th 1947) is a British architect from Northampton, Northamptonshire. Alsop then studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture where at 23 he entered the competition to design the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and came second to the eventual winners,..
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Will Jennings
born London
Will is an artist working primarily with photography and moving image. His artistic practice concerns topics such as memory, duration, history of place, architecture, psychology and politics. The relationship of the past – and its monuments – to the present and future features strongly in his..
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Willem Marinus Dudok
born 1884, Amsterdam
Willem Marinus Dudok (July 6th, 1884 - April 6th, 1974) was a Dutch modernist architect born in Amsterdam. Dudok became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 and designed dozens of public buildings and entire neighborhoods there. He is best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall..
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Willem van Tijen
born 1894, Wormerveer
Willem van Tijen ( Wormerveer, February 1, 1894 - Zandvoort, May 28, 1974 ) was a Dutch architect, one of the founders of social housing. He is one of the most important pioneers of national housing construction in the Netherlands. As architect he introduced the style of shake-hands architecture..
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William Le Baron Jenney
born 1832, Fairhaven, Massachusetts
William LeBaron Jenney (September 25, 1832 – June 14, 1907) was an American architect and engineer who is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884 and became known as the Father of the American skyscraper. The earliest of several American architects who pioneered high-rise skyscraper..
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William N. Breger
born 1922, Manhattan
Born in Manhattan, New York City, William N. Breger, attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, while "sneaking" into Cooper Union as a non-graduated high school student for a year before being discovered and thrown out at age 15.
He later held a graduate degree in Architecture from..

William Pereira
born 1909, Chicago
William Leonard Pereira (April 25, 1909 – November 13, 1985) was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, of Portuguese ancestry who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. Remarkably prolific, he worked out of Los..
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William Van Alen
born 1883, Brooklyn, New York
William Van Alen was an American architect, best known for designing New York City's, art-deco Chrysler Building.
Van Alen attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and also studied for three years at the Atelier Masqueray, the first independent architectural atelier in the United States,..

Willy Kreuer
born 1910, Köln
Willy Kreuer was a Modernist German architect. Kreuer was active in Koln from 1928 to 1937. Later he began working in Berlin. From 1949-1952 he was an assistant at the Chair of Urban Design of the Technical University of Berlin. A significant Berlin competition in which he took part, was the..
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Willy Müller
born 1961
Willy Müller Architects was founded in 1996 by the architect and urbanist Willy Müller, the office focused on Architecture and Urban Design.
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Wise Architecture
est. Seoul
Wise Architecture was founded by Young Jang and Sook Hee Chun. The practice is a multi-cultural design firm based on Seoul, Korea offering architectural design, interior design, programming and space analysis, and master planning. A collaborative approach creates innovative and functional..
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Witold Cęckiewicz
born 1924, Nowe Brzesko
Witold Alexander Cęckiewicz, (born April 29th, 1924) is a polish architect and urbanist. Member of the Academy of Sciences (since 1983) and the Social Committee for Restoration of Historical Monuments of Krakow (SKOZK).
From 1955-1960 he served as chief architect of Krakow. Since 1970, he was..

Wivi Lönn
born 1872, Tampere
Wivi Lönn born as Olivia Mathilda Lönn was a Finnish architect. She was the first woman to be awarded the honorary title of "Professor" by the Finnish Association of Architects. Olivia Mathilda Lönn was born in the village of Onkiniemi, near Tampere. After graduating from the Industrial School of..
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WMR Arquitectos
est. 2005, Vitacura
WMR aim to achieve the maximum space synthesis, through the mastery of scale and site tension, light and local materials. They believe a great building is one that is rational, poetic, sustainable and responds to the client's dreams. Felipe Wedeles Tondreau was born in 1977. He obtained his..
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WOHA
est. 1994, Singapore
WOHA is a multidisciplinary design firm led by directors Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell and founded in 1994. Creative and technical staff are grouped in teams, that follow projects all the way through from concept to completion.
The firm has been said not to have a fixed language or style,..

WUDA* Wurfbaum Dantas
est. 2006, Munich
WUDA* is a cross-cultural practice founded by Inês Dantas and Florian Wurfbaum. Their work covers design-projects, research and consulting activities within interdisciplinary strategies and international teams, establishing diverse partnerships and collaborations.
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WXY Architects
est. 1989, New York
WXY architecture and urban design (formerly Weisz + Yoes) is a multi-disciplinary practice based in New York specializing in the realization of visitor centers, schools and parks as well as private projects. It was founded by Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes. The firm is noted for its focus on..
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Xavier Font Solà
Civil engineer experienced in regional planning, site development and structural and bridge design. For the last sixteen years Xavier Font Solà have been involved in the design and construction process of twenty-seven bridges, fifteen of which have been built under his supervision.
Some of his..

Xavier Vilalta
born 1980, Mollerussa

XTH Berlin
est. 2000, Berlin
The architectural office was founded in 2000 by Martin Janekovic, Uwe Rieger, and Helle Schröder and it develops process-oriented spaces between material and information in the fields of architecture, exhibition construction, and exhibition architecture.
XTH-Berlin deals with the analysis of..

Yakov Rubanchik
born 1899, St.Petersburg
Yakov Osipovich Rubanchik was part of the Asnova ("Association of New Architects"). It was an Avant-Garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called the Rationalists. The group received a boost when El Lissitzky became a proponent..
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Yantram Architectural Design Studio
born 1978, Ahmedabad
Architectural Rendering Studio is the site design can demonstrate the proposed essential linework to full shading rendering of how the site will take care of development. Yantram Exterior Design Studio gives you a plans to improve influences you to feel of cool present day Residential,..
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