Walter Gropius (1883–1969)

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1. Henry-Russell Hitchcock

   Author of The International Style, Architecture, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Da Capo Paperback)

2. S. Giedion

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

3. Frank Lloyd Wright

   Author of The Natural House, The Future of Architecture, The Living City

4. Robert Venturi

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

5. Le Corbusier

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

6. Robert A. M. Stern

   Author of New Directions in American Architecture

7. Charles Jencks

   Author of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture

8. Walter Gropius

   Author of The New Architecture and The Bauhaus, Scope of Total Architecture

9. Paul Goldberger

   Author of The skyscraper, On the rise: Architecture and design in a post modern age

10. Louis Henri Sullivan

    Author of The Autobiography of an Idea (Dover Books on Architecture), Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings (Documents of Modern Art.)

11. Vincent Scully

    Author of Modern Architecture, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

12. Charles Willard Moore

    Author of The Place of Houses

13. Arthur Drexler

    Author of The Architecture of the Ecole des beaux-arts

14. Rem Koolhaas

    Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

15. Robert Gutman

    Author of Architectural Practice: A Critical View

16. Reyner Banham

    Author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

17. Nikolaus Pevsner

    Author of An Outline of European Architecture, The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

18. Colin Rowe

    Author of The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays

19. Alan Colquhoun

    Author of Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change

20. Antonin Artaud

    Author of The Theater and Its Double, Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings, Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper