Definitions for: Architect


[n] One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.



Webster (1913) Definition: Ar"chi*tect ([aum]r"k[i^]*t[e^]kt), n. [L.
architectus, architecton, Gr. ? chief artificer, master
builder; pref. 'archi- (E. archi-) + ? workman, akin to ?
art, skill, ? to produce: cf. F. architecte, It. architetto.
See Technical.]
1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who
understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to
form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend
the artificers employed.

2. A contriver, designer, or maker.

The architects of their own happiness. --Milton.

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress.
--Coldsmith.

Synonyms: designer

See Also: Adam, Adolf Loos, Albert Speer, Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Antonio Gaudi, Antonio Gaudi i Cornet, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Behrens, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Berlage, Bernini, Bramante, Breuer, Brunelleschi, Buckminster Fuller, Bullfinch, Burnham, Butterfield, Carrere, Cass Gilbert, Chambers, Charles Bullfinch, Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Charles Follen McKim, Charles L'Enfant, creator, da Vinci, Daniel Hudson Burnham, de l'Orme, Delorme, Donato Bramante, Donato d'Agnolo Bramante, Edward Durell Stone, Eero Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen, Erich Mendelsohn, Filippo Brunelleschi, Francois Mansart, Fuller, Garnier, Gaudi, Gaudi i Cornet, Gilbert, Giotto, Giotto di Bondone, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Gropius, Hastings, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Henri Labrouste, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hoffmann, Horta, Hunt, I. M. Pei, Ieoh Ming Pei, Inigo Jones, Jacques Germain Soufflot, Jean Louis Charles Garnier, Jenny, John Merven Carrere, Jones, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Paxton, Kahn, Labrouste, landscape architect, landscape gardener, Latrobe, Le Corbusier, L'Enfant, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, Lin, Loos, Louis Isadore Kahn, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Lutyens, Mansart, Marcel Lajos Breuer, Maya Lin, McKim, Mendelsohn, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Mies Van Der Rohe, Mills, Nervi, Palladio, Paxton, Pei, Peter Behrens, Philibert de l'Orme, Philibert Delorme, Pier Luigi Nervi, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pugin, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Richard Morris Hunt, Richardson, Robert Adam, Robert Mills, Saarinen, Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir Joseph Paxton, Sir William Chambers, Soufflot, Speer, Stone, Thomas Hastings, Victor Horta, Walter Gropius, William Butterfield, William Chambers, William Le Baron Jenny

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