List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni - Architecture and Design

Architecture and Design

  • Christopher Charles Benninger (MCP 1971) – award winning architect and urban planner in India, Sri Lanka, prepared capital plan of Bhutan.
  • Gordon Bunshaft (BArch 1933, MArch 1935) – architect of Lever House (New York City), Beinecke Library (Yale), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC); Pritzker Prize (1988)
  • John Martin Clancy (BArch 1956) – architect; many buildings in Boston, including at MIT; Monsanto House of the Future
  • Ogden Codman, Jr. (1884) – Beaux-Arts domestic architect, interior designer
  • John Desmond (MArch) – designed numerous public buildings in Baton Rouge, including the River Center
  • Daniel Chester French (1871, one year) – sculptor of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial), John Harvard (Harvard Yard), Minute Man (Concord, Massachusetts)
  • Cass Gilbert (1880) – architect of the US Supreme Court Building, Woolworth Building (New York City)
  • Marvin Edward Goody (MArch 1951) – architect; many buildings in Boston, including at MIT; Monsanto House of the Future
  • Charles Sumner Greene (1891) – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena)
  • Henry Mather Greene (1891) – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena)
  • Marion Mahony Griffin (1894) – co-designer of the master plan for Canberra (Australia)
  • Nathanael Herreshoff (SB 1870) – naval architect-engineer, yacht designer
  • Raymond Hood (1903) – architect of Rockefeller Center (New York City), Tribune Tower (Chicago)
  • Lois Lilley Howe (SB 1890) – second woman in the US to found an architecture firm
  • Tishan Hsu (SB 1973, MArch 1975) – painter, sculptor, architecture professor at Sarah Lawrence College
  • Myron Hunt (SB 1893) – architect of Huntington Art Gallery, Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
  • Kevin A. Lynch (SB 1947) – urban planner, author of the seminal book The Image of the City
  • John O. Merrill (SB 1921) – structural engineer, architect, leader of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  • Eleanor Manning O'Connor (SB 1906) – architect, educator, public housing advocate
  • I. M. Pei (BArch 1940) – architect, Louvre Pyramid (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Bank of China (Hong Kong), MIT Buildings 18, 54, 66, E15; AIA Gold Medal (1979), Pritzker Prize (1983)
  • Louis Sullivan (one year) – influential founder of the Chicago School; "father of skyscrapers"; "father of modernism"; AIA Gold Medal (1944)
  • James Knox Taylor (1880) – Supervisory Architect of Denver Mint, Philadelphia Mint, many Post Offices, court houses, other federal buildings
  • Robert Taylor (1892) – MIT's first black graduate, architect of the Tuskegee Institute
  • Harry Mohr Weese (BArch 1938) – architect, historic preservation advocate, designed first group of stations for Washington Metro system

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