A Chinese-American modernist, Pei brought geometric precision to museums and civic buildings around the world. His British connection includes the Royal Gold Medal and a celebrated response from Prince Charles to his Louvre Pyramid.
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From Dutch-influenced country houses to the baroque interiors of Windsor Castle, Hugh May helped define English architecture after the Restoration.
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Founder of the Virgin Group, which encompasses more than 400 companies, including Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Records.
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From London Underground stations to Senate House, Charles Holden made function and clarity defining features of modern British architecture.
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From the India Buildings to the Mersey Tunnel and Philharmonic Hall, Rowse brought a range of architectural styles to major public and commercial projects.
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The gardener who turned experiments in glasshouse design into a landmark of Victorian engineering also shaped public parks and horticultural publishing.
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From Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace to comedies that challenged the conventions of marriage, Vanbrugh worked across architecture and the stage.
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From the Mansion House to three London churches, Dance helped shape the civic and religious architecture of eighteenth-century London.
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From Bridlington to Whitehall, Kent brought Palladian architecture and a new naturalism in landscape design to Georgian Britain.
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The architect’s plans joined classical design to an ambitious vision for Bath, while his surveys of ancient stone circles revealed another side of his work.
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The architect, educator and broadcaster helped shape the 1951 Festival of Britain and led the Royal Academy of Arts from 1976 to 1984.
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The British architects joined exposed construction and bold urban ideas to a lasting debate about how buildings shape everyday life.
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From Edinburgh and London to country houses across Britain, Robert Adam joined architecture, furnishings and decoration in a distinctive neoclassical style.
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From country houses in Wales to Regent Street and the Royal Pavilion, Nash helped give the Regency capital its enduring form.
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From Newgate Prison and the Guildhall façade to churches, markets and civic streets, Dance helped shape the changing City of London.
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From Cragside to the Norman Shaw Buildings, the Edinburgh-born architect shaped British domestic and civic architecture.
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From Centre Point to Tower 42, Seifert’s buildings helped define post-war London and reached far beyond the capital.
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A long partnership with James Stirling led to buildings in Britain and Europe; Wilford went on to shape cultural institutions and teach architects internationally.
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From the Tokyo International Forum to 20 Fenchurch Street, the Uruguayan-born architect left a distinctive mark on the built environment in Britain and far beyond.
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From Halifax and the Architectural Association to projects at Kew, Nový Dvůr and beyond, Pawson has made simplicity a practical design discipline.
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From major projects at Foster and Partners to Make Architects, Ken Shuttleworth’s work spans the Gherkin, the Cube and London’s Olympic Handball Arena.
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The Gothic Revival architect and designer whose work shaped the Palace of Westminster.
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The English architect helped make radical ideas about adaptable cities part of architectural debate, then carried that experimental outlook into teaching and completed buildings.
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From Waterloo International to the Eden Project, the British architect made engineering and visible structure central to a career spanning public buildings, transport and industry.
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From St Mary le Strand to the Radcliffe Camera, Gibbs made an independent architectural language influential through both buildings and books.
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Swedish-born and Scottish by family, Chambers shaped British architecture through Somerset House, Kew’s Great Pagoda and influential books on design.
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The architect’s partnership with Span helped shape more than 73 housing estates, combining modern design with landscaped shared spaces.
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From the Union Buildings in Pretoria to war cemeteries in France and Belgium, Baker shaped public architecture in Britain and across the former empire.
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The Ghanaian-British architect brought an international perspective to public buildings in Britain and abroad, including Washington’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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From Richmond Riverside to Downing Street, Terry brought classical forms into modern British buildings and kept their place in architectural debate.
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From Byker in Newcastle to projects in Sweden and London, Erskine brought social concerns and careful attention to place into a long architectural career.
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The Iraqi-born British architect reshaped contemporary design, from London’s Olympic pool to internationally recognised buildings and a lasting body of work.
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From workhouses and churches to the Albert Memorial and St Pancras, Scott shaped Victorian Britain’s public and religious architecture.
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A London-born architect reworked medieval forms for Victorian churches, schools and colleges, leaving a distinctive mark from Margaret Street to Oxford.
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From the Glasgow School of Art to interiors that brought architecture, furniture and decoration together, Mackintosh shaped a distinctive Scottish contribution to modern design.
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The British architect helped shape high-tech design, from lightweight steel-and-glass structures to buildings that brought contemporary engineering together with traditional materials.
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From the MI6 building and Charing Cross to major regeneration schemes, Farrell combined postmodern design with a lasting interest in how cities work.
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From Liverpool Cathedral to the red telephone box and Battersea Power Station, Scott made buildings and everyday designs that remain part of Britain’s landscape.
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From Surrey country houses and the Cenotaph to the planned capital of British India, Lutyens shaped buildings that still carry the marks of their time.
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The English architect transformed the Bank of England, designed Britain’s first purpose-built public art gallery and left his home and collections to the nation.
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