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Nicholas Negroponte

1943 - Today

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Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 book Being Digital translated into more than forty languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Negroponte is the 225th most popular architect (down from 208th in 2019), the 3,299th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,664th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Nicholas Negroponte ranks 225 out of 518Before him are Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Friedrich von Schmidt, Josep Lluís Sert, Jean Prouvé, Imre Steindl, and Hermogenes of Priene. After him are Vittorio Gregotti, Shigeru Ban, Adrian Smith, Félix Candela, Adolf Meyer, and Kevin Roche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Nicholas Negroponte ranks 213Before him are Soad Hosny, Lucio Battisti, Nikolay Shmatko, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Edward L. G. Bowell, and Albert Pintat. After him are Carmen Argenziano, Winston Groom, Henry Hill, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Stanley Kamel, and Walter Godefroot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nicholas Negroponte ranks 3,299 out of 20,380Before him are Paul Giamatti (1967), Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), KRS-One (1965), and Rebecca De Mornay (1959). After him are Fred Newhouse (1948), David Marks (1948), Leon Russom (1941), Joe Dante (1946), John Canfield Spencer (1788), and William A. Wellman (1896).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Nicholas Negroponte ranks 11Before him are Philip Johnson (1906), Robert Venturi (1925), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), and Charles Eames (1907). After him are Adrian Smith (1944), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), and Steven Holl (1947).