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/ˈɑrkətˌɛkt/ Listen

noun

Architect n.

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.

A contriver, designer, or maker. "The architects of their own happiness." "A French woman is a perfect architect in dress."

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Etymology of 'Architect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Architect" Quotes from Famous Books

... taken him a hundred years only to count his wealth, he bethought himself of his native valley, and resolved to go back thither, and end his days where he was born. With this purpose in view, he sent a skillful architect to build him such a palace as should be fit for a man of his vast wealth to ...

— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various

... goes with us to visit the cathedral in Valladolid, a cathedral as unlike that of Burgos as the severest mood of Spanish renaissance can render it. In fact, it is the work of Herrera, the architect who made the Escorial so grim, and is the expression in large measure of his austere mastery. If it had ever been finished it might have been quite as dispiriting as the Escorial, but as it has only one of the four ponderous towers it was ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

... was shown a few hours after the Good Venture put into Flushing. A ship arrived in port, bringing with it Pacheco, the Duke of Alva's chief engineer, an architect of the highest reputation. He had been despatched by the duke to take charge of the new works that the soldiers had been sent to execute, and ignorant of what had taken place he landed at the port. He was ...

— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty

... sentiment or design.' A column placed by an architect without a capital or base is laughed at: the same column in a ruin ...

— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... lent his friendly assistance to correct and improve a pamphlet written by Mr. Gwyn, the architect, entitled, Thoughts on the Coronation ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

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