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 Dictionary entry overview: What does architect mean? 

• ARCHITECT (noun)
  The noun ARCHITECT has 1 sense:

1. someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

  Familiarity information: ARCHITECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHITECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

architect; designer

Hypernyms ("architect" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "architect"):

landscape architect; landscape gardener; landscaper; landscapist (someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively)

Ithiel Town; Town (United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844))

Instance hyponyms:

Eero Saarinen; Saarinen (United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961))

Jacques Germain Soufflot; Soufflot (French architect (1713-1780))

Henry Hobson Richardson; Richardson (United States architect (1838-1886))

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin; Pugin (English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852))

I. M. Pei; Ieoh Ming Pei; Pei (United States architect (born in China in 1917))

Joseph Paxton; Paxton; Sir Joseph Paxton (English architect (1801-1865))

Andrea Palladio; Palladio (highly original and much imitated Italian architect (1508-1580))

Nervi; Pier Luigi Nervi (Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979))

Mills; Robert Mills (United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855))

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; Mies Van Der Rohe (United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969))

Michelangelo; Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564))

Erich Mendelsohn; Mendelsohn (German architect who migrated to Palestine in 1937 (1887-1953))

Charles Follen McKim; McKim (United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909))

Francois Mansart; Mansart (French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666))

Lutyens; Sir Edwin Landseer Luytens; Sir Edwin Lutyens (English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944))

Adolf Loos; Loos (Austrian architect (1870-1933))

Richard Upjohn; Upjohn (United States architect (born in England) (1802-1878))

James Wyatt; Wyatt (English architect (1746-1813))

Frank Lloyd Wright; Wright (influential United States architect (1869-1959))

Sir Christopher Wren; Wren (English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723))

Stanford White; White (United States architect (1853-1906))

Otto Wagner; Wagner (Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918))

Robert Charles Venturi; Robert Venturi; Venturi (United States architect (born in 1925))

Henri Clemens van de Velde; Henri van de Velde; van de Velde (Belgian architect (1863-1957))

John Vanbrugh; Sir John Vanbrigh; Vanbrugh (English architect (1664-1726))

Eliel Saarinen; Saarinen (Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950))

Thornton; William Thornton (American architect (1759-1828))

Kenzo Tange; Tange (Japanese architect (born in 1913))

Louis Henri Sullivan; Louis Henry Sullivan; Louis Sullivan; Sullivan (United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924))

Strickland; William Strickland (United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854))

Edward Durell Stone; Stone (United States architect (1902-1978))

Albert Speer; Speer (German Nazi architect who worked for Hitler (1905-1981))

Lin; Maya Lin (United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959))

Breuer; Marcel Lajos Breuer (United States architect (born in Hungary) who was associated with the Bauhaus in the 1920's (1902-1981))

Buckminster Fuller; Fuller; R. Buckminster Fuller; Richard Buckminster Fuller (United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983))

de l'Orme; Delorme; Philibert de l'Orme; Philibert Delorme (French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570))

Chambers; Sir William Chambers; William Chambers (English architect (1723-1796))

Carrere; John Merven Carrere (United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911))

Butterfield; William Butterfield (English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900))

Burnham; Daniel Hudson Burnham (United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912))

Bullfinch; Charles Bullfinch (United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844))

Brunelleschi; Filippo Brunelleschi (Florentine architect who was the first great architect of the Italian Renaissance (1377-1446))

Garnier; Jean Louis Charles Garnier (French architect (1825-1898))

Bramante; Donato Bramante; Donato d'Agnolo Bramante (great Italian architect of the High Renaissance in Italy (1444-1514))

Bernini; Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680))

Berlage; Hendrik Petrus Berlage (Dutch architect and town planner (1856-1934))

Behrens; Peter Behrens (German architect known for his simple utilitarian factory buildings (1868-1940))

Alberti; Leon Battista Alberti (Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472))

Adam; Robert Adam (Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792))

Aalto; Alvar Aalto; Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976))

da Vinci; Leonardo; Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519))

Antonio Gaudi; Antonio Gaudi i Cornet; Gaudi; Gaudi i Cornet (Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926))

Cass Gilbert; Gilbert (United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934))

Giotto; Giotto di Bondone (Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337))

Gropius; Walter Gropius (United States architect (born in Germany) and founder of the Bauhaus school (1883-1969))

Hastings; Thomas Hastings (United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929))

Hoffmann; Josef Hoffmann (Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956))

Horta; Victor Horta (Belgian architect and leader in art nouveau architecture (1861-1947))

Hunt; Richard Morris Hunt (United States architect (1827-1895))

Jenny; William Le Baron Jenny (United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907))

Inigo Jones; Jones (one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652))

Kahn; Louis Isadore Kahn (United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974))

Henri Labrouste; Labrouste (French architect who was among the first to use metal construction successfully (1801-1875))

Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Latrobe (United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820))

Charles Edouard Jeanneret; Le Corbusier (French architect (born in Switzerland) (1887-1965))

Charles L'Enfant; L'Enfant; Pierre Charles L'Enfant (United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825))

 Context examples 

I thought it as well, said Holmes as we climbed the stile, that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or on some definite business.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alternatively, this might refer to a person helping you with your space, such as an architect, designer, contractor, or another person you’ve hired to facilitate your home-related plans.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Buckyballs, named because they resemble the geodesic domes built by architect Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in 1985 among the byproducts of laser vaporization of graphite in which the carbon atoms are arranged in sheets.

(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Nature is an amazing architect. Bamboo is structured in a really clever way,” said Darshil Shah, a researcher in Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture, who led the study.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Round the corner from the by-street, there was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate and let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men; map-engravers, architects, shady lawyers and the agents of obscure enterprises.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation; which he justified to me, by the like practice of those two prudent insects, the bee and the spider.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If you would rather stay in your current apartment or house, you can instead fix up your space with the help of an architect, a contractor, painters, repair men, or decorator.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Or you may have invited in the painters, repairmen, or an architect to make changes to your home to be more reflective of the true you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you are an architect, historian, a dealer in rare letters and autographs, a museum curator, or archeologist, this month will find you winning your glory and making exceptional progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)