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Adrian Smith

1944 - Today

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Adrian D. Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect. He designed the world's tallest structure, Burj Khalifa, as well as the building projected to surpass it, the Jeddah Tower. A long-time principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he founded his own architectural partnership firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrian Smith has received more than 1,746,221 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Smith is the 202nd most popular architect (up from 231st in 2019), the 2,624th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,847th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Architect.

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  • 1.7M

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  • 55.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Adrian Smith ranks 202 out of 424. Before him are Alexey Shchusev, Hassan Fathy, Giovanni Giocondo, Quatremère de Quincy, Christian de Portzamparc, and Ödön Lechner. After him are Kevin Roche, Yan Liben, Callimachus, Mart Stam, Carlo Rainaldi, and Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Adrian Smith ranks 179. Before him are Karen Armstrong, Francisco Sagasti, Marie-France Pisier, Christian de Portzamparc, Steve Fossett, and Sergei Belov. After him are John Newcombe, Rosalía Mera, Rick Davies, Dennis Farina, Billy Cobham, and Jürgen Grabowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adrian Smith ranks 2,624 out of 18,182. Before him are Steve Fossett (1944), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Sal Mineo (1939), Brittany Murphy (1977), Ned Beatty (1937), and Dita Von Teese (1972). After him are Charles W. Fairbanks (1852), Patricia Clarkson (1959), Elgin Baylor (1934), Morton Feldman (1926), Robin Tunney (1972), and Gall (1840).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Adrian Smith ranks 12. Before him are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Robert Venturi (1925), Peter Eisenman (1932), Charles Eames (1907), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), and William Le Baron Jenney (1832). After him are Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Michael Graves (1934), and Charles Jencks (1939).

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