Word Finder - architect

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A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

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Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect.

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A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.

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Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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A title given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.

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To design, plan, or orchestrate.

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He architected the military coup against the government.

Great Architect of Nature, help me to find the true path out of the labyrinth of lies!

To become a fully qualified architect takes seven years.

The same architect designed the superb aqueduct by which the city is supplied with water from Monte Francoa, some nine miles off.

The new town was, for the most part, laid out by the German architect Schaubert.

The celebrated architect Mr George Gilbert Scott was appointed.

The Castello di Corte here, the old castle of the Gonzagas (1395-1406), erected by Bartolino da Novara, the architect of the castle of Ferrara, now contains the archives, and has some fine frescoes by Mantegna with scenes from the life of Ludovico Gonzaga.

The choir, with its unusual form and radiating chapels, plainly follows French models, but the name of the architect is lost.

It is said that in the reign of Constantine Pogonatus (648-685) an architect named Callinicus, who had fled from Heliopolis in Syria to Constantinople, prepared a wet fire which was thrown out from siphons (TO bta Twv o wwwv ic4 €pbjsevov 7rUp u-ypov), and that by its aid the ships of the Saracens were set on fire at Cyzicus and their defeat assured.

The North Church was the last work of the architect Hendrik de Keyser (1565-1621) of Utrecht.

The architect was Sir Charles Barry, and the style is late Perpendicular.

Platonic too is the doctrine of the divine architect who seeks to realize in the visible universe the archetypes already formed in his mind.

In attendance was the esteemed golf course architect Rees Jones.

An experienced surveyor or architect will take a more holistic view.

If you've ever seen or visited this landmark, you know that Jefferson, the third President of the United States, was quite an accomplished architect.

One of the more high profile cases in the world of celebrity divorce is the split of serial bride Christie Brinkley and fourth husband, architect Peter Cook.

C. I is on the science of architecture generally, and the branches of knowledge with which the trained architect ought to be acquainted, viz.

When the Athenians founded Thurii in Italy he accompanied the colony as architect, and afterwards, in 408 B.C., he superintended the building of the new city of Rhodes.

The original city of Seleucus was laid out in imitation of the "gridiron" plan of Alexandria by the architect, Xenarius.

In every case the exterior is left plain and austere, as if the architect intended thus to heighten by contrast the splendour of the interior.

He surrounded himself with men of low birth, such as Ireland, a scholar and diplomatist; Rogers, a great musician; and Cochrane, apparently an architect or sculptor - he is styled a mason or stone-cutter.

Morris, having passed his finals in the preceding term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, the well-known architect; and on New Year's Day the first number of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

Verus by the architect Zeno, for the heirs of a local Roman citizen (as an inscription repeated over both portals attests), its auditorium has a circuit of 313.17 feet.

He was trained, partly at Paris, for the profession of architect, but his opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained for him a nomination to the military school of Munich.

Giovanni Antonio Amedeo was chief architect in 1481-1499, and the lower part of the facade was finished in 1507.

Below the town to the south-west, close to the station, is the large pilgrimage church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, begun in 1569 by Pope Pius V., with Vignola as architect; but not completed until 1640.

As superintendent of public buildings he enriched Paris with boulevards, quays and triumphal arches; he relaid the foundation-stone of the Louvre, and brought Bernin from Rome to be its architect; and he erected its splendid colonnade upon the plan of Claude Perrault, by whom Bernin had been replaced.

After the decline of episcopacy the building was neglected for a long period, but the choir, which contains some carved oak stalls of the 16th century, was restored in 1873, and the nave roofed and restored in 1892-1895, under the direction of Sir Rowand Anderson, the architect.

At home Portugal produced Andre de Resende, author of the Historia da antiguidade da cidade de Evora and De antiquitatibus Lusitaniae, and Francisco de Hollanda, painter, architect, and author of, inter alia, the Quatro dialogos da pintura antiga.

Now the architect builds, not for all time, but for a set of conditions which will inevitably cease in the not distant future.

Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect, determined the length of the arc and its centre of gravity, and Pierre Fermat deduced the surface of the spindle generated by its revolution.

The palace is an imposing building in the classical style, originally built as a town-hall in 1648-1655 by the architect Jacob van Kempen.

The original was designed in 1682 by John Montgomery, a native architect, but in 1842 it was removed hither from its old site and rebuilt in a better style.

With the assistance of the famous architect, Pieter Post of Haarlem, he transformed the Recife by building a new town adorned with splendid public edifices and gardens, which was called after his name Mauritstad.

In 1847-1848, during the reign of Abd-ul-Mejid, the building was put into a state of thorough repair by the Italian architect Fossati.

Wherever the noblest expressions of her mind are honoured, wherever the large conceptions of Pericles command the admiration of statesmen, wherever the architect and the sculptor love to dwell on the masterpieces of Ictinus and Pheidias, wherever the spell of ideal beauty or of lofty contemplation is exercised by the creations of Sophocles or of Plato, there it will be remembered that the spirit which wrought in all these would have passed sooner from among men, if it had not been recalled from a trance, which others were content to mistake for the last sleep, by the passionate breath of Demosthenes.

His talent as a boy attracted the attention of George Dance, junior, the architect, who with other friends helped him on.

He became architect to the Bank of England, which he practically rebuilt in its present form, and did other important public work.

Among its more important buildings are the imperial palace, which was founded in 1770 by Prince Orlov, and constructed according to the plans of the Italian architect Rinaldi; a military orphanage, founded in 1803; and a school for horticulture.

Evidence of his skill as an architect may be seen in the church and campanile of All Saints, Oxford, and in three sides of the so-called Peckwater Quadrangle of Christ Church, which were erected after his designs.

St Sophia (Aya Sofia), formerly the cathedral, and probably erected in the 6th century by Justinian's architect Anthemius, was converted into a mosque in 1589.

He then hired England's foremost architect, James Wyatt, to build a medieval abbey for him to live in.

David is an Associate in the Construction & Engineering Department, having been a qualified and practicing architect before turning to law.

Whichever route you decide to take, for many people the next step will be to employ an architect.

Consult your inspecting architect about the design of the notice board and do not be afraid to call upon the skills of professional designers.

The Chapel was designed by the architect George Dance the Younger, surveyor to the City of London.

Sir Edwin Lutyens, a renowned architect of the time, was commissioned for the project.

I would not criticize a naval architect for relying on Department of Transport information available at the time.

The puzzle was designed by Howard Garns, a retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979.

The plan has been developed in association with conservation architect Rodney Melville and Partners.

The walter sickert, Thomas barker building was bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough designed in 1897 by a Scottish architect, John McKean Brydon.