Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

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1. Le Corbusier

   Author of Towards a New Architecture, The City of To-morrow and Its Planning, Modulor 2

2. Rem Koolhaas

   Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, S,M,L,XL, Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30)

3. Kenneth Frampton

   Author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Labour, Work and Architecture

4. Robert Venturi

   Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

5. Colin Rowe

   Author of Collage City, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, As I Was Saying, Vol. 1: Texas, Pre-Texas, Cambridge

6. Aldo Rossi

   Author of The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books), A Scientific Autobiography

7. Reyner Banham

   Author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

8. Vitruvius

   Author of Ten Books on Architecture

9. William J R Curtis

   Author of Modern Architecture Since 1900, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms

10. Walter Gropius

    Author of The New Architecture and The Bauhaus

11. Anthony Vidler

    Author of The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

12. Ulrich Conrads

    Author of Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

13. Manfredo Tafuri

    Author of Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development

14. S. Giedion

    Author of Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Mechanization Takes Command

15. K. Michael Hays

    Author of Architecture Theory since 1968

16. Bernard Tschumi

    Author of Architecture and Disjunction

17. Steen Eiler Rasmussen

    Author of Experiencing Architecture

18. Francis D. K. Ching

    Author of Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, Building Construction Illustrated

19. Kate Nesbitt

    Author of Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995

20. Steven Holl

    Author of Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture, Pamphlet Architecture 1-10, Anchoring