We're glad we didn't have to put this list together: Argentinian architect Andrea Stinga and creative director Federico Gonzalez compiled a list called The ABC of Architects, "an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building." They then distilled those buildings into simplified graphics and animated it into a video:
The video was done for fun and isn't meant to be a completely comprehensive list. "A lot of [architects] have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter," write Stinga and Gonzalez, "and we [made] an effort to [include a multitude of] nationalities."
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