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Edward Durell Stone (1902 Fayetteville, Arkansas - 1978 New York City) was an American modernist twentieth century architect.

Stone attended the University of Arkansas, Harvard, and MIT and established his own firm in New York in 1936. After a period of strict interpretation of International Style, in the 1950s Stone departed from modernist strictures and developed an individual, idiosyncratic style which included patterns of ornament. By some accounts, this was through the influence of his wife. Treated as a renegade, Stone continued to receive major commissions in the United States and abroad. Stone's design talents were perpetuated through the work of his son, Edward Durell Stone, Jr., whose firm, EDSA, was voted among the 10 most influential landscape architecture firms in the U.S.

Recently, his life and career have received renewed attention due to the destruction of both the Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, and 2 Columbus Circle in New York City, which was an enigmatic, prominent, marble-clad building with Venetian motifs and a curved façade. It had filigree-like portholes and windows only at its top stories. The building was commissioned by Huntington Hartford as an art museum, and afterward deeded to the City. The destruction of the Edward Durell Stone's original design touched off a preservation debate joined by Tom Wolfe and Robert A. M. Stern, among city-wide, national and international preservation groups.

• Radio City Music Hall, in Rockefeller Center, New York City (with Wallace Harrison and Donald Deskey, 1932)
• Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller family's modern art museum, New York City, (with Philip S. Goodwin, 1939)
• Ingersoll Steel, Utility Unit House, Kalamazoo (1946)
• Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas (1950)
• Harvey Mudd College (1955)
• Edward Durell Stone House, New York City (1956)
• Park Lane Residence, Dallas (1956)
• United States Embassy, New Delhi, India (1958)
• US Pavilion at Expo 58, Brussels (1958)
• Carlson Terrace, Fayetteville, Arkansas (1958, partially demolished 2005, 2007)
• Robert M. Hughes Memorial Library, Old Dominion University (1959)
• Gulf Oil Gasoline Station, John F. Kennedy International Airport, (1959)
• Arie Crown Theater, Chicago (1960, altered 1997)
• First Unitarian Society's church, Schenectady, New York (1961)
• Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon (1961, Altered 1997)
• 2 Columbus Circle, New York City (1962, altered 2006)
• North Carolina Legislative Building, Raleigh, North Carolina (1963)
• Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology (1964)
• National Geographic Building, Washington, DC (1964)
• Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico (1964)
• World Trade Center of New Orleans (1965)
• Claremont School of Theology (1965)
• Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri (1966, demolished 2005)
• Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey (1968)
• State University of New York at Albany (1968)
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (1971)
• Georgetown University Law Center's Bernard P. McDonough Hall, Washington, DC (1971)
• Standard Oil Building (now known as Aon Center), Chicago (1972)
• City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas (1975)
• Florida State Capitol (1977)
• University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1977)
• PepsiCo World Headquarters Complex, Purchase, New York
• Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska
• W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachusetts (1973)
• Museum of Anthropology, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (1986)

2 Columbus Circle.

Aon Center.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

• Rockefeller Center
• Rockefeller family
• Museum of Modern Art

Warning: the following link is a very subjective view on the future of 2 Columbus Circle that does not attempt to represent all sides to the argument.

• Page on 2 Columbus Circle, with photographs
• Photographs of a Modern Home in Dallas, Texas by Architect Edward Durrell Stone