Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
- noun One that plans, devises, or organizes something.
- transitive verb To plan, organize, and bring to fruition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or whose profession it is to form plans and designs of buildings and superintend the execution of them.
- noun One who plans, designs, or consummates any complex thing: as, the supreme Architect of the universe; he is the architect of his own fortunes.
- noun One who contrives, devises, or plots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun A contriver, designer, or maker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A professional who designs
buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction. - noun A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- verb transitive To
design ,plan , ororchestrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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“I am very annoyed at the current usage of the term architect,” writes Fran Read, who is one.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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“I am very annoyed at the current usage of the term architect,” writes Fran Read, who is one.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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PS: I prefer the term architect over engineer, unless you like to be formal then it's CTO
Planet Mozilla 2008
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PS: I prefer the term architect over engineer, unless you like to be formal then it's CTO
Planet Mozilla 2008
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Either the architect is a liar who should be prosecuted for shoddy construction, or the buildings were taken down by demolition charges for dramatic effect and to cover up evidence?
Think Progress » Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran 2006
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I spoke to an architect from a leading design firm at the RIBA recently, and he was adamant that a large multi-disciplinary consultancy had no need to interact with co-professionals from other firms through social networks – “our in-house resources are more than adequate,” he insisted.
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I am hoping someone on the forum can share their experience/knowledge - we bought land last year (yeah!) and have just reached the point where our architect is submitting the plans to the local office for planning permission.
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I am hoping someone on the forum can share their experience/knowledge - we bought land last year (yeah!) and have just reached the point where our architect is submitting the plans to the local office for planning permission.
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Deffintely the architect is less responsable for an asked service than a sick system that could induce such a stupid client-request.
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Simon Conder, a British architect, is responsible for this beautiful conversion of a group of farm
Old Dairy Barn Converted Into an Eco Home Filled With Rustic Charm | Inhabitat 2010
TankHughes commented on the word architect
"...from the way we architect our services." As heard in the 3 hour meeting I just got out of.
May 13, 2015