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Jacques Germain Soufflot
b. Irancy, Auxerre, 1713;
d. Paris, 1780.1
Jacques Germain Soufflot was a seminal French Neo-Classicist, notable in particular for the Hotel-Dieu in Lyon and Ste Genevieve (the Pantheon) in Paris. In Rome from c.1731 to 1738, he gravitated to the French Academy, where several younger pensionaries were to be associated with the [...]

Lluis Domenech Y Montaner
b. Barcelona, 1850;
d. Barcelona, 1923.
Spanish architect, historian and leading figure in the Catalan Modernismo movement. A contemporary of Gaudi, Domenech received his diploma from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid in 1873. The principles of Modernismo - a potent mixture of Art Nouveau, the Modern style, the Jugendstil and [...]

Friedrich Weinbrenner
b. Karlsruhe, 1766;
d. Karlsruhe, 1826.
Friedrich Weinbrenner was the dominant figure within the German school of Neo-Classicism at the beginning of the c19. After studying mathematics and architecture at the Academy in Vienna, Weinbrenner travelled to Berlin and Italy, returning in 1797 to take up the position of building inspector in Karlsruhe, where his [...]