Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shut

Is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist. He was the first Dutch-born astronaut, a fact that is often overlooked in the Netherlands because he was a

Was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author, and designer of one of the earl

Was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French landscape garden, Parc Monceau in Paris. He also invented the transparent, an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture, for viewing moving bands of landscape paintings.

Was a Swiss engineer, remembered as the builder of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his dea

Was a Swiss engineer, remembered as the builder of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his death in the tunnel in 1879.He was born the son of a carpenter at Chêne, a small village some 3 kilometers from Geneva. At eighteen, he left to tour France and developed a career undertaking the design and direction of civil engineering works.

Was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life. De

Was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life. Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome, when he came to the attention of Swedish King Gustavus III,

Was an architect and educator in South Australia. Born in the Adelaide inner-southern suburb of Unle

Was an architect and educator in South Australia. Born in the Adelaide inner-southern suburb of Unley, he became interested in engineering and architecture while in the goldfields of Western Australia and later studied mechanical engineering at the School of Mines, serving an apprenticeship under architect Edward Davies. After graduating he accepted a position as a lecturer at the school, and was responsible for developing the first formal architecture course in the State in 1904. Between 1905 and 1914, he served as registrar at the school before leaving to join his long-time friend, Walter Bagot, at the architectural firm of Woods, Bagot and Jory. He remained with the firm until his death in 1965, and over the years was involved in a number of significant projects, including the South Australian National War Memorial and the original Australian Mutual Provident building on King William Street.

Was a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV of France.[1] He was born and died in Pari

Was a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV of France.[1] He was born and died in Paris.

Was a French architect, born in Haubourdin and associated principally with Lille. He is best known f

Was a French architect, born in Haubourdin and associated principally with Lille. He is best known for the Peace Palace in The Hague, for which he won a design competition. Other works include the Opera and Chamber of Commerce de Lille, as well as a number of churches, including the Basilica of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, in Lisieux.

Was a French architect.He was born in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, the son of Thibault Métezeau, the brothe

Was a French architect.He was born in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, the son of Thibault Métezeau, the brother of Clément II Métezeau and the nephew of Jean Métezeau. He was Premier Architecte du Roi of Henri IV of France. He undertook the construction of the Grand

Was a French-born South African architect and engineer who designed numerous buildings in the Cape C

Was a French-born South African architect and engineer who designed numerous buildings in the Cape Colony. He was South Africa's first trained architect and brought with him a distinctive mannered neo-classicism.

Was a French architect. His projects in Paris include the churches of Saint Eugene at 6 rue Sainte-C

Was a French architect. His projects in Paris include the churches of Saint Eugene at 6 rue Sainte-Cécile, 9th arrondissement (1855), and Saint-François Xavier des Missions étrangères (1861-63).

Was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical style, who was trained in the a

Was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical style, who was trained in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, the favoured architects of Napoleon. After Napoleon's exile he remained the assistant of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, whose design for the sober Chapelle Expiatoire over the burial site of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette he oversaw in construction (1816-1824). He also assisted Éloi Labarre (1764—1833) in completing the Palais Brongniart (1813-1826), the seat of the Paris Bourse, named for its architect, Alexandre Brongniart.

Was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts. H

Was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts. His best-known work is probably the Museum of Natural History (now the Gallery of Evolution) in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, a transitional work combining classical rhythms and ornamental details with cast-iron structure and a glass roof.

Was a French architect, and engraver, born in Paris. He was originally a landscape painter, but in h

Was a French architect, and engraver, born in Paris. He was originally a landscape painter, but in his travels through Italy was struck with the beauty of the Italian buildings, and changed his profession, devoting himself to architecture.

Is an architect and a former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, who founded his own firm, named L

Is an architect and a former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, who founded his own firm, named Lucien Lagrange Architects in 1985.[1] He is currently involved in the construction or renovation of seven notable buildings in Chicago, Illinois:[2] 10 East Delaware, Blackstone Hotel, The Elysian, Lincoln Park 2520, Ritz-Carlton Chicago, 208 South LaSalle and X/O. Lagrange designed the renovation of the Chicago Landmark Carbide & Carbon Building into the Hard Rock Hotel and designed the Park Tower.[2] He has also renovated the Union Station (Chicago) and designed the 29 South LaSalle, The Pinnacle, InterContinental Chicago.

Was a French architect. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in L

Was a French architect. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Lorraine and a member of the board of directors of the École de Nancy.

Was a Brazilian architect and urban planner.One of the earliest and most important modernist archite

Was a Brazilian architect and urban planner.One of the earliest and most important modernist architects in Brazil, Lucio Costa became famous for a long career in which he built little, wrote much, and became involved in a number of high-profile controversies.Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in Montreux until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the School of Fine Art (Escola Nacional de Belas Artes) in Rio de Janeiro. After some early works in the eclectic manner, he adopted Modernism in 1929. In 1930 Costa established a partnership with Russian-born Brazilian architect Gregori Warchavchik, and became the Manager of the School of Fine Art. Even though he found students eager to be taught in the "new style

Was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.Born in Schwerin as the son of an employee of the Fo

Was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.Born in Schwerin as the son of an employee of the Fokker company he studied airplane engineering in Berlin. During World War II he was the lead engineer at the Messerschmitt AG building the first jet plane, the Me 262. After the war he created the Bölkow GmbH in Ottobrunn, which with time grew to the biggest aeronautics and spaceflight company, MBB (Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm). In the early 1990s it was bought by DASA.

Was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.Born in Schwerin as the son of an employee of the Fo

Was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.Born in Schwerin as the son of an employee of the Fokker company he studied airplane engineering in Berlin. During World War II he was the lead engineer at the Messerschmitt AG building the first jet plane,

Was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der

Was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois Institute of Technology), in Chicago, Illinois. Hilberseime

Germany, commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students a

Germany, commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students and others.

Was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed

Was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall[4] and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM.

Was a German mysticist, Germanic revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect

Was a German mysticist, Germanic revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect and astrologer and was used by the German military in the Third Reich, not necessarily willingly. Two of the more well known mysticists, other than Strania

Was an engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland.He was born in Fiera di Primi

Was an engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland.He was born in Fiera di Primiero, in Trentino (then part of the Austrian Empire), and studied in Feltre and Padua. After beginning his career in the province of Tyrol, he lived for som

Was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent eighteenth-century architect of Italy, he

Was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent eighteenth-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.