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architect

[ahr-ki-tekt] / ˈɑr kɪˌtɛkt /


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The word "cenotaph" means "empty tomb" in Greek and it was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens in a simple, austere style, with no sense of triumphalism and with almost no decoration.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Some were already prominent: Isamu Noguchi was a well-established sculptor, while George Nakashima was a trained architect who had worked in India.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

A bevy of the problems that the Louvre now faces date from its most recent reinvention, the so-called Grand Louvre project, associated with the presidency of Francois Mitterrand, and marked by Chinese-American architect I.M.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

To its credit, Oschin architect ZGF has done its best to keep the shuttle gallery’s dark, cavernous architecture in the background; focusing attention on the Endeavour while transporting visitors to another realm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The architects of the Constitution anticipated that officials in different branches would compete to preserve their authority.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

All these tasks required master craftsmen, masons, architects and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Also, curved walls like this are so expensive; architects never get a budget to do stuff like that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The city's architects were praised for "turning one of Europe's most intensively used urban coastlines into a global blueprint for climate adaptation".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“You can map in three-D, manipulate space. Engineers do it, surgeons do it. Mathematicians. Also architects and artists like Michelangelo.”

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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