Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zaha Hadid — the architects whose buildings define the skyline of human ambition.
60 GeniusesAn architect compresses geometry, materials, and time into something humans live inside for centuries. The architects on this list rewrote what a building could be.
Frank Lloyd Wright defined American organic architecture. Le Corbusier shaped Modernism. Zaha Hadid bent steel into curves nobody thought possible.
Frank Lloyd Wright is the most cited US answer. Globally, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Antoni Gaudí are the most-named.
Leonardo da Vinci, who designed buildings as well as paintings, is the highest. Among modern architects, Buckminster Fuller is often cited with IQ around 195.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the most prestigious award in architecture, often called the "Nobel of architecture." Awarded annually since 1979.
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