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John Ruskin, The Lamp of Memory, 1849

Ali Mubarak, Al-Khitat, mid 19th century

Ann Pamela Cunningham, To the Ladies of the South, 1853

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Restoration, 1854

John Rollin Ridge, Mount Shasta, 1854

Wilhelm Lübke, The Restoration Fever, 1861

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Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

Cesare Brandi (1906–1988)

Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)

Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963)

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Paul Clemen (1866–1947)

Ananada K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947)

Lucio Costa (1902–1998)

Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

Ann Pamela Cunningham (1816–1875)

Sigurd Curman (1879–1966)

Georg Gottfried Dehio (1850–1932)

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Jacques Derrida (1930–2004)

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Carlo Fea (1753–1836)

Harry Fett (1875–1962)

James Marston Fitch (1909–2000)

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Joost Fontein

Jeremy Foster

Michel Foucault (1926–1984)

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002)

August Gebeßler (1929–2008)

Guastavo Giovannoni (1873–1947)

Abbé Henri Grégoire (1750–1831)

Vittorio Gregotti (1927–2020)

Félix Guattari (1939–1992)

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Dolores Hayden (–1995)

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

Andrew Herscher (b.1961)

Robert Hewison (b.1943)

Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917–2012)

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973)

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Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909–1996)

Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)

Fredric Jameson (b.1934)

Charlotte Joy

Rem Koolhaas (b.1944)

Muhammad Kurd Ali (1876–1953)

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