The following are German-born or Germany-based architects listed according to their architectural style.
Gothic
- Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460? – January 1509)
Renaissance
- Joseph Heintz (1564–1609)
- Elias Holl (1573–1646)
Baroque
- Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739)
- Egid Quirin Asam (1692–1750)
- George Bähr (1666–1738)
- François de Cuvilliés (1695–1768)
- Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726)
- Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766)
- Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (1692–1765)
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699–1753)
- Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753) – also an engineer
- Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736)
- Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773)
- Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766)
Neoclassicism
- Carl Ludvig Engel (1778-1840)
- Frederick William von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800)
- Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800)
- Carl von Gontard (1731–1791)
- Leo von Klenze (1784–1864)
- Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) – also a painter
- Paul Ludwig Simon (1771–1815) – also a scientist
- Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826)
Romanesque revival (Rundbogenstil)
- Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863)
- August Soller (1805 – 1853)
Historicism
- Hermann Eggert (1844–1920)
- Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847)
- Richard Lucae (1829 – 1877)
- Georg Hermann Nicolai (1812–1881)
- Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841–1924)
- Gottfried Semper (1803–1879)
Architectural realism
- Constantin Lipsius (1832–1894)
- Paul Wallot (1841–1912)
Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)
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Gorch-Fock-Halle, Finkenwerder
- Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) – also an urban designer
- Carl Moritz (1863–1944)
Traditionalism
- Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)
Expressionism
- Dominikus Böhm (1880–1955)
- Fritz Höger (1877–1949)
- Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953)
- Hans Poelzig (1869–1936)
- Alfred Runge (1881–1946)
- Eduard Scotland (1885–1945)
Organic
- Hugo Haring (1882–1958)
- Hans Scharoun (1893–1972)
Neue Moderne
- Carl Weidemeyer (1882-1976)
- Peter Behrens (1868–1940)
- Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978)
- Walter Hohmann (1880–1945) – also a civil engineer
- Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)
- Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005)
- Bruno Taut (1880–1938)
- Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951)
Bauhaus
- Edmund Collein (1906–1992)
- Erich Consemüller (1902-1957)
- Walter Gropius (1883–1969)
- Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997)
- Konrad Püschel (1907-1997)
- Lotte Stam-Beese (1903-1988)
Nationalism
- Richard Ermisch (1885-1960), architect
- Wilhelm Kreis (1873-1955), architect
- Franz Ruff (1906-1979), architect
- Albert Speer (1905-1981), architect
- Paul Troost (1878-1934), architect
Internationalism
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion — the German pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain — is one of the most influential pieces of German architecture
- Stephan Braunfels (born 1950)
- Dörte Gatermann (born 1956)
- Helmut Jahn (born 1940) – also a designer
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)
Deconstructivism
- Günther Behnisch (1922-2010)
- Elisabeth Böhm (1921-2012)
- Gottfried Böhm (born 1920)
High tech
- Frei Otto (1925–2015) – also a research scientist
Eco tech
- Hans Kollhoff (born 1946)
Contemporary modernist
- Annabelle Selldorf (born early 1960s) – architect in New York
- Sergei Enwerowitsch Tschoban (born 1962) – Russian-born
Sustainable architecture
- Anna Heringer (born 1977)