Classico
Rinascimento
- Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446)
- L’Invenzione della Prospettiva
- Donatello (1486 – 1466)
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
- Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
- Raffaello (1483 – 1520)
- Andrea Palladio (1508 – 1580)
Barocco – Rococo’
- Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (1510–1584)
- Hugues Sambin (1520–1601)
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
- Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
- André Charles Boulle (1642-1732)
- La Manifattura dei Gobelins (1667)
Neoclassico – Ecletticismo
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
- Giovan Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
- Robert Adam (1728-1792)
- Charles Percier (1764-1838)
- Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853)
- François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770–1841)
- Thomas Chippendale (1750-1780)
- George Hepplewhite (1775-1800)
- Thomas Sheraton (1785-1820)
- Gottlieb Biedermeier (1815-1848)
Pre-Moderno – Arts & Crafts “arti e mestieri”
- Shakers
- Tabitha Babbit (1779-1853)
- Michael Thonet (1796– 1871)
- Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923)
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
- Sedia Ladder Back (1903)
- Gustav Stickley (1858-1942)
Art Nouveau – Modernismo
- Otto Wagner (1841-1918)
- Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
- Antoni Gaudì (1852-1926)
- Carlo Bugatti (1855-1940)
- Louis Majorelle (1859-1926)
- Victor Horta (1861-1947) ?
- Eugène Gaillard (1862-1933)
- Edward Colonna (1862-1948)
- Henry Van de Velde (1863-1957)
- Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
- Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908)
- Joseph Hoffmann (1870-1956)
- Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1932)
Primo Moderno
- August Perret (1874-1954)
- Scuola di Chicago (1870-1920)
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934)
- Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
- Adolf Loos (1870-1933)
- Bruno Taut (1880-1938)
- Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953)
- Hans Poelzig (1896-1936)
- Albert Speer (1905-1981)
Funzionalismo / Bauhaus (1919-1933)
- Deutscher Werkbund (1917-1934)
- Staatliches Bauhaus (1919-1933)
- Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
- Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
- Max Bill (1908-1994)
- Josef Albers (1888-1976)
- László Moholy-Nagy (1932 – 1946)
- Lyonel Feininger
- Johannes Itten
- Oskar Schlemmer
Moderno / Internazionale (1920-1980)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969)
- Lilly Reich (1885–1947)
- Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945)
- Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
- Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964)
- Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
- Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
- Josef Albers (1888-1976)
- Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999)
- Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898–1976)
- Mart Stam (1899-1986)
- Jean Prouvé (1901–1984)
- Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943)
- Marianne Brandt (1893 – 1983)
Razionalismo 1922-1945
Stile Decò ( 1925 – 1945 )
- Eileen Gray (1878-1976)
- Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933)
- Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945)
- Karl Emanuel Martin Weber (1889-1963)
- Paul Follot (1877-1941)
- Paul Theodore Frankl (1886-1962)
- Betty Joel (1894-1985)
- William van Alen (1883-1954)
- Raymond Hood (1881 – 1934)
- Kem Weber (1889–1963)
- Andre Leon Arbus (1903-1969)
Tardo moderno (1940-oggi)
- Giorgio Grassi
- Richard Neutra (1892–1970)
- Philip Johnson (1906-2005)
- Louis Khan (1901-1974)
- Adalberto Libera (1903-1963)
- Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012)
- Michael Graves (1934-2015)
- Paul László (1900–1993)
- Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
- George Katsutoshi Nakashima (1905-1990)
- Charles (1907–1978) e Ray Eames (1912–1988)
- Finn Juhl (1912–1989)
- Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914-2007)
- Harry Bertoia (1915-1978)
- Sedie metalliche
- Paul McCobb (1917-1969)
- Jacques Hitier (1917–1999)
- Florence Knoll (1917-2019)
- Jens Risom (1916-2016)
- A-Chair
- Neo-razionalismo (1950-oggi)
- Aldo Rossi (1931 – 1997)
- Giorgio Grassi
Anni Cinquanta- Sessanta
- Gio Ponti (1891-1979)
- Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971)
- Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)
- George Nelson (1908–1986)
- Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
- Russell Spanner (1916–1974)
- Marco Zanuso (1916-2001)
- Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913- 1968)
- Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002)
- Vico Magistretti (1920-2006)
- Gaetano Pesce
- Robert Venturi (1925-2018)
- Bruno Munari (1907-1998)
- Verner Panton (1926–1998)
- Joe Cesare Colombo (1930-1971)
- Enzo Mari
Postmoderno
- Michael Graves (1934-2015)
- Richard Meier
- Vittorio Gregotti (1927 – 2020)
- Mario Botta
- Willy Rizzo (1928-2013)
- Richard Sapper (1932-2015)
- Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)
- Sedia Mandarin (1986)
- Giorgetto Giugiaro
- The Pritzker Architecture Prize (1979) –
High-Tech
- Richard Rogers
- Renzo Piano
- Norman Foster
- César Pelli (1926 – 2019)
- Toyo Ito
- Ieoh Ming Pei
- Dieter Rams
- Harmut Esslinger, Frog Design
Minimal
- Tadao Ando
- Kazuyo Sejima
- Ryue Nishizawa
- SANAA
- Luis Barragàn (1902-1988)
- Eduardo Souto de Mura
- Alvaro Siza Vieira
- Alberto Campo Baeza
Decostruttuivismo
- Jaques Derrida (1930-2004)
- Frank Ghery
- Peter Eisenman
- Daniel Libenskid
- Rem Koolhaas
- Maison à Bordeaux – Casa Lemoine (1998)
- Seattle Central Library –
- Low Res Project
- OMA – AMO
- Bernard Tschumi
- Steven Holl
- Ben Van Berkel
- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
Neoespressionismo
- Jørn Utzon
- Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
- Christian de Portzamparc
- Shigeru Ban
- Santiago Calatrava
- Arata Isozaki
- Fumihiko Maki
- Massimiliano Fuksas
- Rafael Moneo
- Bjarke Ingels
- Ma Yansong
- Tom Wright
- Antonio Citterio
- Sam Maloof (1916–2009)
- Timothy Schreiber
- Marc Newson
- Dakota Jackson
- Tokujin Yoshioka
- Frans Schrofer
Radical – Kitsch
- Studiodada (1977)
- Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019)
- Ron Arad
- Philippe Starck
- Marteen Baas
- Christopher Guy Harrison
- Karim Rashid
- Marcel Wanders
- Terence Main
- Patricia Urquiola
- Ferruccio Laviani
- Xavier Lust
- Harow