The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Croatia
This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 46th most number of Architects behind Morocco, and Afghanistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Architects of all time. This list of famous Croatian Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Vlado Milunić (1941 - 2022)
With an HPI of 53.26, Vlado Milunić is the most famous Croatian Architect. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Vladimir Milunić (3 March 1941 – 17 September 2022) was a Czech-Croatian architect. He was noted for designing the "Dancing House" in Prague with Frank Gehry. He also taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
2. Alexander Wittek (1852 - 1894)
With an HPI of 46.02, Alexander Wittek is the 2nd most famous Croatian Architect. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Alexander Wittek (12 October 1852, Sisak – 11 May 1894, Graz) was an Austrian-Hungarian architect and chess master. As an architect, Wittek worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina during Austro-Hungarian Empire. His most well-known works in Sarajevo are the City Hall building called "Vijećnica" (1892–1894) which later became the National Library and the Sebilj public fountain (1891), and in Mostar Hotel Neretva, all designed and built in the pseudo-Moorish style. Wittek was also a chess master. He tied for 5–6th at Berlin 1881 (2nd DSB–Congress, Joseph Henry Blackburne won), and was in 9th place at Vienna 1882 (Wilhelm Steinitz and Simon Winawer won). In 1882 he was ranked 9th in the world. Wittek died in a lunatic asylum in Graz in 1894, having been diagnosed with a "paralytic mental disorder" the previous year. One source says that he committed suicide but another cites tuberculosis.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Croatian architects born between 1852 and 1941. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Croatian architects include Vlado Milunić, and Alexander Wittek. As of April 2024, 1 new Croatian architects have been added to Pantheon including Alexander Wittek.
