The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 38th most number of Architects behind Canada, and Syria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Architects of all time. This list of famous Estonian Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974)
With an HPI of 63.30, Louis Kahn is the most famous Estonian Architect. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings for the most part do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the RIBA Gold Medal. At the time of his death, he was considered by some as "America's foremost living architect."
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Estonian architects born between 1901 and 1901. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Estonian architects include Louis Kahn.
