Architects

India

Hafeez Sorab Contractor is an Indian architect and the founder of Architect Hafeez Contractor, one of India's largest architectural practices. Closely associated with the transformation of India's built fabric post liberalization, his practice spans residential, commercial, hospitality, IT campuses, civic infrastructure, airports, stadiums and mass housing. He is considered among the country's most prolific high rise architects, and has designed many skyscrapers in India, primarily in the city of Mumbai. He is the architect of some of the tallest buildings the country, including The 42 in Kolkata, The Imperial in Mumbai, and the Minerva Tower, also in Mumbai. His firm has also designed the National Maritime Heritage Complex, Lothal, Gujarat, a project currently under construction, and set to be one of India's key tourism destinations. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in January 2016 by the Government of India, one of India's highest civilian awards.

Nikken Sekkei Ltd. (日建設計) is an architectural, planning and engineering firm from Japan, with headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo. As of 2019, Nikken Sekkei ranks as the second largest architectural practice in the world.

Czechoslovakia · Hungary

László Ede Hudec or Ladislav Hudec, Chinese name Wu Dake, was a Hungarian–Slovak born architect, active in Shanghai from 1918 to the 1940s. He was responsible for some of the city's most notable and inventive architectural landmarks, particularly the Park Hotel, at 22 floors, the tallest in East Asia, and inspired by New York Art Deco skyscrapers. He also designed the German Expressionist inspired Baptist Publications and Christian Literature Society Building, the Art Deco Grand Theatre, and the Streamlined D. V. Woo House, probably the grandest and most up to date house of the 1930s.

China

Chinese architect and co-founder of Amateur Architecture Studio, known for the Ningbo History Museum and China Academy of Art.

Taiwan · Republic of China

Chu-yuan Lee is a Taiwanese architect best known for designing the skyscraper Taipei 101.

Wong Tung & Partners is an international architecture, planning and design firm established in Hong Kong in 1963. It has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chongqing.

Mughal Empire

Ustad Ahmad Lahori, also known as Ahmad Mi'mar, was an architect and engineer of the Mughal Empire who served as the chief architect during the reign of Shah Jahan. He is credited with designing the Red Fort in Delhi and may have also been responsible for the design of the Taj Mahal in Agra, along with Mir Abd-ul Karim and Makramat Khan. He is regarded as one of the greatest architects of the 17th-century.

India · British Raj · Dominion of India

Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian architect who worked in functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist architecture. He received the Padma Shri in 1974.

India · British Raj · Dominion of India

Claude Batley F.R.I.B.A., F.I.A.A., was an English architect who as practitioner, teacher and President of the Indian Institute of Architects from 1921 to 1923, played an influential role in development of modern architecture in India in the first half of the 20th century.

AECOM is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Information Based Architecture (IBA) is a partnership between architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit, set up in London in 1998.

United States

Adrian Devaun Smith 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. Some of his other works include the Central Park Tower in New York City, Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing.

Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. is an architectural and engineering practice based in Hong Kong, with branch offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Farrells is an architecture and urban design firm founded by British architect and planner Sir Terry Farrell with offices in London, Manchester, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The firm has won numerous awards for their characteristic mixed-use schemes, transit-oriented development, contextual urban placemaking, and cultural buildings.

Charles Spinola, also known as Carlo Spinola, was a Jesuit missionary from Genoa, Italy, martyred in Japan as a missionary.

Lombardy

Giovanni Battista Cairati, known in Portuguese as João Baptista Cairato, was an Italian architect and engineer. Cairati was a leading military architect and, after the union of the Portuguese and Spanish empires in 1580, he was sent to the east by Philip II to redesign many of the fortresses. He dominated Portuguese military architecture in the Orient from the African coast to Malacca from 1583 to 1596.

Venezuela

Carlos Zapata is an American architect, with his office headquartered in New York City.