Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a Filipino architect. A pioneer of modern Philippine architecture, he was recognized in some qua

Was a Filipino architect. A pioneer of modern Philippine architecture, he was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time. He was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976.

Was a well known Argentine fashion designer and actor. He was a personal friend of Eva Perón and pa

Was a well known Argentine fashion designer and actor. He was a personal friend of Eva Perón and participated as costume designer in multiple Argentine films.

(known popularly as Panos) is a Greek, Swedish-based fashion designer and head of Panos Emporio AB,

(known popularly as Panos) is a Greek, Swedish-based fashion designer and head of Panos Emporio AB, a swimwear company in Mölndal, Sweden.

Is an American Academy Award-nominated fashion designer. She was born in New York City and raised in

Is an American Academy Award-nominated fashion designer. She was born in New York City and raised in Astoria, Queens to Greek and Armenian parents, after they immigrated there from the island of Chios in Greece and Istanbul [1]. She is the owner of Patricia Field, a boutique located at 302 Bowery in Manhattan.

Was a French architect and building restorer. He worked on the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, Église Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, Saint-Pierre of Angoulême and Saint-Front of Périgueux. He won the competition to design the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on Montmartre in Paris, and saw construction commence on it, though he died long before its completion in 1914.

Is a renowned French architect. He is best known for having planned numerous airports worldwide, not

Is a renowned French architect. He is best known for having planned numerous airports worldwide, notably Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila), Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Jakarta), Shanghai Pudong International Airport (China) Abu Dhabi International Airport, Dubai International Airport, Cairo International Airport, Brunei International Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris - Orly Airport).

Is a golf course designer and a member of a famous family of course designers. Dye has an honorary d

Is a golf course designer and a member of a famous family of course designers. Dye has an honorary degree from Purdue University. He is married to fellow designer and former amateur champion Alice Dye since 1950.Dye was born in Urbana, Ohio. He worked in the insurance business, and was a successful amateur golfer at the state level in Indiana. He visited Scotland, and made a thorough study of the classic courses there. He made a gradual career transition into golf course design in his mid 30s. His first well-known course was Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, which opened in 1964, and which later hosted the 1991 PGA Championship. In 1967, he designed The Golf Club near Columbus, Ohio, where he solicited input from a young Jack Nicklaus, a Columbus resident. The two would work together to design the acclaimed Harbour Town Golf Links, opened in 1969, the site of an annual PGA Tour event ever since. Nicklaus credits Dye with significant influence on his own approach to golf course design.

Was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the inventor of the f

Was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the inventor of the first practical flying machine powered by a human being. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "Do more with less".

Was a French architect. He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of

Was a French architect. He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD). The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.

Was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in

Was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in that city during part of World War II and from 1954 until his death. In 1900, he finished his studies of architecture at the Technical University of Munich

Was a Viennese architect who is now best known for his friendship with the philosopher Ludwig Wittge

Was a Viennese architect who is now best known for his friendship with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1916 and 1928, and for being Wittgenstein's partner in the design and building of the Stonborough House in Vienna.In November 1925, Wittgenstein’s sister Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned Engelmann, to design and build a large town house in Vienna in the Kundmanngasse. Wittgenstein showed a great interest in the project and in Engelmann’s plans. He convinced Engelmann that he could realise his sister’s intentions much better, and was eventually asked to be the architect of the house.

Was a French architect trained in the Beaux-Arts manner. Sanson entered the École des Beaux-Arts de

Was a French architect trained in the Beaux-Arts manner. Sanson entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris at the age of eighteen, and followed the courses offered by Emile-Jacques Gilbert. Having received his diploma in 1861, he apprenticed first in the office of Denis-Louis Destors and Charles-Auguste Questel and then with Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, who passed his practice to Sanson when he retired in 1865. Sanson quickly made a grand reputation among aristocrats and the rich haute bourgeoisie for his châteaux and grand Parisian town houses, or hôtels particuliers. He took into his practice his son, Maurice Pierre (1864-1913), and Victor-Guillaume Bariller and René Sergent. The firm's offices were successively at 43, rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, 48, rue d'Anjou and 25, rue de Lubeck, Paris.

Is an American graphic designer, cartoonist, writer and illustrator.He initiated Polaroid's corporat

Is an American graphic designer, cartoonist, writer and illustrator.He initiated Polaroid's corporate image development and product identity in 1958. His innovative black packaging and the ubiquitous Polaroid color stripes subdued the dominance of Eastman Kodak's yellow packaging at the point-of-purchase. Giambarba designed and produced hundreds of Polaroid packages and collateral material including consumer literature and How to Make Better Polaroid Instant Pictures, a trade book for Doubleday & Co. in his more than a quarter of a century for this client.

Was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Or

Was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions. In 1976, Emmett married Pauling's sister, Pauline.

Was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy (Bauakademie) in the faculty of archite

Was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy (Bauakademie) in the faculty of architectural physics and a privy architectural counsellor at the Prussian Higher Council of Architecture (Preußische Oberbaudeputation) in Berlin. In the latter

Was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to P

Was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century art.

Was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at th

Was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929–1932), and the Art Students League (1933–1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, Rand taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. He designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. Rand died of cancer in 1996. He is buried in Beth El Cemetery in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Was a German architect and city planner from Lauterbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, one of Adolf Hitler's arc

Was a German architect and city planner from Lauterbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, one of Adolf Hitler's architects. He graduated from the University of Stuttgart and later became a Professor there, where he formed together with Paul Bonatz the architectural styl

Was a Nazi architect and one of Nazi Germany's most vocal political critics of modern architecture.

Was a Nazi architect and one of Nazi Germany's most vocal political critics of modern architecture. Along with Alexander von Senger, Eugen Honig, Konrad Nonn, and German Bestelmeyer, Schultze-Naumburg was a member of a National Socialist para-governmental

Was a French architect and theorist; and designed the 1880 reconstruction of the iconic Magasins du

Was a French architect and theorist; and designed the 1880 reconstruction of the iconic Magasins du Printemps department store in Paris. Though Sédille is best known for his Printemps design, he was also associated with the Creusot family foundry and was very active in professional associations and architectural education in the 1880s. He wrote a number of compelling pieces of architectural criticism, especially his review of contemporary Viennese and British architecture, and reflected what were by and large Teutonic theoretical concerns that have come to be understood as architectural realism, based on the works of Gottfried Semper.

Was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris. He was an architect in chief of

Was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris. He was an architect in chief of many French civil buildings and national palaces, and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.Moreelse was a pupil of the Delft portrait painter Michiel

Was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.Moreelse was a pupil of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, who had himself been a pupil of Anthonie van Blocklandt. He took a study-trip to Italy, where he received many portrait commissions. Back in Utrecht, in 1596 he became a member of the zadelaarsgilde, and in 1611 was one of the founders of a new painters' guild, becoming its first deken.

Was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.Janák

Was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.Janák studied with Otto Wagner in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under Jan Kotera. In 1911, with the publication of an article The Prism and The Pyramid advocating dynamic architectural compositions and destabilizing traditional right-angled building, Janák became the leading theoretician of Czech Cubism. Of the three Czech cubists -- Janák, Josef Chochol and Josef Gocár -- Janák probably built less and theorized more. Still, his 1913 Fara House in Pelhrimov is a key work in that style.

Was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon

Was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and businessman.

Was a Belarusian Soviet aircraft constructor and designer. Sukhoi was born in Glubokoye near Vitebsk

Was a Belarusian Soviet aircraft constructor and designer. Sukhoi was born in Glubokoye near Vitebsk, a small village in Belarus. He went to school from 1905 to 1914 at the Gomel Gymnasium. In 1915 he went to the Imperial Moscow Technical School (today kn