List of Jewish American architects

This is a list of notable Jewish American architects.

For other notable Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

A

• Max Abramovitz, architect
• Dankmar Adler, architect and civil engineer, partner with Louis Sullivan in celebrated firm of Adler and Sullivan
• David Adler
• Gregory Ain, California architect; protégé of Richard Neutra

B

• Armand Phillip Bartos, architect and philanthropist, best known for the Shrine of the Book, co-designed with Frederick John Kiesler, housing the gift of the State of Israel of the Dead Sea Scrolls by his father-in-law Samuel Gottesman
• Walter Curt Behrendt, German modernist architect and expert on city planning and housing
• Edward Blum and George Blum, École des Beaux-Arts-trained brothers of Alsatian-French descent; celebrated for their terra cotta embellished, Art Nouveau Manhattan apartment buildings; ended their career with two Art Deco works;^[1] their work was catalogued in Andrew S. Dolkart and Susan Tunick's 1993 book George & Edward Blum: Texture and Design in New York Apartment House Architecture^[2][3]
• Marcel Breuer, modernist architect and furniture designer
• Arnold Brunner, considered the first successful American born Jewish architect in the US;^[4] also a city planner; namesake of an annual award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a grant by the American Institute of Architects' New York chapter
• Gordon Bunshaft, modernist architect, partner in firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

C

• Giorgio Cavaglieri, architectural preservationist and painter of gouaches
• Irwin Chanin, designer of Art Deco office towers and Broadway theaters, real estate developer and benefactor to his alma mater, The Cooper Union, which named its school of architecture in his honor
• Serge Chermayeff, Grozny-born architect of Sephardic descent whose inter-war partnership with Erich Mendelsohn was lauded for bringing modernism to Britain; was also a writer, professor and co-founder of professional societies Stateside, and father of graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff
• Preston Scott Cohen, architect

D

• Richard Dattner, Bielsko, Poland-born recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Thomas Jefferson Award, its highest honor for public architecture
• Elizabeth Diller, partner with husband Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the first architectural firm to win the so-called "genius award," a MacArthur Prize
• Dan Dworsky, architect

E

• John Eberson, Romanian-born architect best known for his atmospheric movie palaces
• Leopold Eidlitz, architect
• Peter Eisenman, architect
• Sidney Eisenshtat, architect best known for modernist synagogues, including the House of the Book

F

• Ulrich Franzen, architect
• James Ingo Freed, architect
• M. Paul Friedberg, landscape architect

G

• Frank Gehry, architect, Pritzker Prize (1989)
• Bertrand Goldberg, architect of Chicago's Marina City Center
• Percival Goodman, urban theorist and architect who designed over 50 synagogues; brother of sociologist and author Paul Goodman
• Victor Gruen, father of the shopping mall

H

• Lawrence Halprin, landscaper architect, educator

J

• Herman Jessor, architect of more than 40,000, union-sponsored, publicly assisted, cooperative housing units in New York City

K

• Albert Kahn, industrial architect
• Louis I. Kahn, modernist architect
• Frederick John Kiesler, Czernowitz-born theater designer, artist, theoretician and architect (see Bartos)
• Robert D. Kohn, one-time American Institute of Architects president, best known for his designs of Reform synagogues and buildings for the New York Society for Ethical Culture

L

• Morris Lapidus, exemplar of Miami Modern Architecture
• Paul László (1900–1993), Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries
• Edgar M. Lazarus (1868–1939), prominent in the Portland, Oregon area for more than 45 years, best known as the architect of the Vista House^[5]
• Daniel Libeskind, architect

M

• Richard Meier, architect, Pritzker Prize (1984)
• Erich Mendelsohn, architect, co-founder of the German architectural collaborative Der Ring; practiced in Mandatory Palestine before settling in the US in 1941
• Robert Moses, "master builder"; subject of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker
• Eric Owen Moss, architect

N

• Richard Neutra, modernist architect

P

• James Polshek, architect

R

• Emery Roth, apprentice to Daniel Burnham; architect of classic Jazz Age New York apartment buildings and hotels; founded firm known as the "builder's architects"

S

• Moshe Safdie, architect
• Lawrence Scarpa, architect
• Rudolph Schindler, Austrian-born modernist architect known for his private houses in Los Angeles
• Denise Scott Brown, architect, city planner and partner/spouse of architect Robert Venturi
• Martha Schwartz, landscape architect
• Raphael Soriano, Rhodes-born architect/educator of Sephardi descent whose work epitomized Mid-Century modern
• Michael Sorkin, architectural theorist and academic with non-profit practice, currently directs the graduate program in urban design at CCNY
• Clarence Stein, urban planner, architect and writer, best known for advancing the garden city movement in the US, as evinced by his own collaborations with architect Henry Wright, Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn
• Robert A. M. Stern, architect

T

• Edgar Tafel, architect, Frank Lloyd Wright protégé
• Stanley Tigerman, architect

U

• Joseph Urban, architect, set designer^[6] and book illustrator

Z

• Paul Zucker, architect and city planner in Berlin who joined the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research

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