Architects
- Charles N. Agree
- Marcus Burrowes
- Emily Helen Butterfield, Michigan's first female licensed architect, artist and church architecture innovator (born in Algonac)
- C. Howard Crane
- John M. Donaldson
- Alden B. Dow, born in Midland
- Joseph N. French
- Norman Bel Geddes, architectural industrial designer, aviation designer, and theatrical designer best known for the 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion Futurama he designed for General Motors (born in Adrian)
- Eric J. Hill
- Albert Kahn, architect (born in Rhaunen, Germany; moved to Detroit)
- Louis Kamper
- William E. Kapp
- Florence Knoll, minimalist archtitect and furniture designer (born in 'Saginaw'*)
- John Lautner
- Gordon W. Lloyd
- George D. Mason
- Charles Willard Moore, architect, leader of the humanistic architecture movement (born in Benton Harbor)
- S. Kenneth Neumann
- Ralph Rapson, architect best known for the design of the original Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis (born in Alma)
- Harry J. Rill
- Gino Rossetti
- Matthew L. Rossetti
- Wirt C. Rowland, architect best known for his design of the Guardian Building (born in Clinton)
- Eero Saarinen
- Victor Saroki
- Eliel Saarinen
- Ossian Cole Simonds, late-19th century landscape architect (born in Grand Rapids)
- Fred L. Smith
- Minoru Yamasaki, architect, best known for designing the World Trade Center. (Born in Seattle, later moved to Grand Rapids)
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Famous quotes containing the word architects:
“All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“Perchance the time will come when every house even will have not only its sleeping-rooms, and dining-room, and talking-room or parlor, but its thinking-room also, and the architects will put it into their plans. Let it be furnished and ornamented with whatever conduces to serious and creative thought. I should not object to the holy water, or any other simple symbol, if it were consecrated by the imagination of the worshipers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““Where do architects and designers get their ideas?” The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)