Word Finder - architects

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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.

These examples show the influence of those architects who, in the 6th century, built the splendid basilicas at Sanaa and elsewhere in Arabia.

Throughout the period of the classical revival Vitruvius was the chief authority studied by architects, and in every point his precepts were accepted as final.

Stone houses were built soon after that by Arabian architects.

The judgment, indeed, with which this style of ornament is apportioned to the various parts, is almost as remarkable as the ornament itself, and conveys a high idea of the taste and skill of the architects of this age."

The architects Rupolo and Sardi have erected a considerable number of buildings, in which they have attempted, and with considerable success, to return either to Venetian Gothic or to the early Renaissance Lombardesque style.

Architects, turners, tilemakers, decorative artists and sculptors, coming from China and from Korea, erected grand temples for the worship of Buddha enshrining images of much beauty and adorned with paintings and carvings of considerable merit.

The educational institutions are numerous and of a high order, including a technical high school (with about 1100 students), which enjoys the privilege of conferring the degrees of doctor of engineering, doctor of technical sciences, &c., a veterinary college, a political-economic institution (Gehestiftung), with library, a school of architects, a royal and four municipal gymnasia, numerous lower grade and popular schools, the royal conservatorium for music and drama, and a celebrated academy of painting.

Subsequently, towards the close of the 15th century, the refined court of Lodovico Sforza attracted such celebrated men as Bramante, the architect, Gauffino Franchino, the founder of one of the earliest musical academies, and Leonardo da Vinci, from whose school came Luini, Boltraffio, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Marco d'Oggiono, &c. Later, Pellegrino Tibaldi and Galeazzo Alessi of Genoa (the former a man of very wide activity) were the chief architects, and Leone Leoni of Arezzo the chief sculptor.

This arrangement brought them within the province of architects, and for nearly a century utility and fitness for the cultivation of plants were sacrificed, as still is often the case, to the unity of architectural expression between the conservatory and the mansion.

Like the Curetes and Telchines they are mythical types of prehistoric workmen and architects, and as such the objects of worship.

The architecture is a peculiar and debased imitation of classic style, attributed by architects to the 2nd century A.D.

It has twenty-four columns of Carystian (cipollino) marble, with capitals probably of Byzantine work with swelling acanthus leaves; but the rest of the church is due to native architects.

Only in the short winter months did he dwell in the house built for him at Esztergom by his Italian architects.

Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about architects.

Kilwinning is the traditional birthplace of Scottish freemasonry, the lodge, believed to have been founded by the foreign architects and masons who came to build the abbey, being regarded as the mother lodge in Scotland.

Although every European country was affected by this neo-classical revival it may be claimed that England absorbed it more com - pletely than any other country, for the brothers Adam (the - architects) and Josiah Wedgwood brought it into absolute correspondence with modern tastes and ideas.

In England buildings of Norman Shaw and Ernest George demanded quiet and harmonious metalwork; and the custom of these architects of superintending and designing every detail, even for interiors, created the supply.

British architects and artists who design for the principal decorating firms are to-day as conversant with the Renaissance and succeeding styles of France and Italy as medieval revivalists were familiar with the Gothic styles with which they made us so well acquainted.

The average ecclesiastical metal-work has rather receded than progressed in merit, except when designed by architects and executed under their supervision.

Most of the original papers on this subject of engini balancing are to be found in the Transactions of the Institution 01 Naval Architects.

He had been much helped by his opportunities of intercourse with the great architects, engineers and mathematicians who frequented the court of Milan - Bramante, Alberghetti, Andrea di Ferrara, Pietro Monti, Fazio Cardano and, above all, Luca Pacioli.

Some architects depend solely upon partitions, and a building with a well-constructed iron frame should be safe if provided with brick partitions or if the exterior of the iron framework is covered with well-built masonry of sufficient thickness.

In American practice the use of steel in buildings of ten or more storeys, or in manufacturing plant where the floor loads are heavy and frequently " live " in the sense of causing vibration, has led to more careful specifications as to the quality of materials and character of workmanship, and it is the custom of the leading architects to have the structural frame inspected and tested during manufacture at the foundries, rolling-mills and shops by a firm of engineers making a speciality of such inspections.

On our action now depends the question whether our children shall curse or bless us; whether we shall live in their memory as promoters of civil strife, with all its miserable consequences, or as joint architects of a happy, prosperous and united state.

They face the east and are dated by architects about A.D.

The architects of the mosques have made a skilful use of the semi-dome in the support of the main dome of the building, and in the consequent extension of the arched canopy that spreads over the worshipper.

In the quarrels of the priesthood under the Empire it was St Bernard, the great abbot of Clairvaux, who tried to arrest the papacy on the slippery downward path of theocracy; finally, it was in Sugers church of St Denis that French art began that struggle between light against darkness which, culminating in Notre-Dame and the SainteChapelle, was to teach the architects of the world the delight of building with airiness of effect.

They are in turn skilled scientists, architects, builders, artisans, labourers and even scavengers; but collectively they are the rulers on whom the colony depends for the wonderful condition of law and order which has made the bee-community a model of good government for all mankind.

There is no reason, therefore, to discredit Magrizi's statement that it was three brother architects from Edessa that the Armenian minister Badr al-Gamali employed to build three of the fine city gates of Cairo (1087-1091).

Unencumbered by the demands of the mass market, modern architects were free to express their aesthetics in state-financed housing projects.

There is a very neglected (for extraordinary historical reasons) medieval church in East Anglia for which my firm were appointed architects.

Often, it seems like he has managed to merge high-end conceptualism with the kind of low-end practical photography undertaken by surveyors or architects.

Unicorn is designed by Keith Williams Architects and Mansell Construction Services is lead contactor.

What I find even more disconcerting is that South African architects appeared to have shown a disinterest in the Indaba.

He proposed a national center to get the planners, architects, developers, housing professionals and even the highway engineers to work together.

To establish the required design, Portakabin's own architects also consulted with NHS estates.

The architects like to think of their creations as the first luxury houseboats to rent in Europe and it's easy to understand why.

The projects will initially be assessed by regional panels comprising architects and architectural ironmongers, before being submitted to a national judging panel.

Architects feel therefore neither moral nor physical power to protest over anything.

The participants included not only archeologists and historians but also naval architects and specialists in sea-level studies.

Clearly the language used by architects and those in the planning system is something of a bête noir for the champions of plain speech.

When I read Utopia on Trial it all seemed such common sense yet common sense that had been ignored by planners and architects alike.

The Gothic architects and builders discovered the amazing strength and stability of using pointed arches.

Architects and graphic designers tilney Shane were approached to act as design consultants on IBM's award winning offices at Bedfont Lakes near Heathrow.

The Institute also subsidizes student tickets with which to use the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Wilkinson Eyre goes Dutch The Netherlands ' first suspension bridge, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, has been lifted into place.

The Lift New Parliament project is a chance to explore ways to have a better discussion between architects and non-architects.

Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola and earlier architects were careful students of the work of Vitruvius, which through them has largely influenced the architecture of almost all European countries.

In the wake of 9/11 architects and engineers are thoroughly reexamining the assumption and methods that were previously state of the art.

The plans, created by renowned architects make, detail the design of the National Center of Excellence for Judo.