Working in a profession that is still called upon to erect monuments of boomingly hollow authority, Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien represent the higher realm of human scale.
When William Shakespeare was growing up in rural Stratford-upon-Avon, carpenters at that East London site were erecting the walls of what some consider the first theater built in Europe since antiquity.
Marshall McLuhan in his book Understanding Media (1964) became famous for erecting a whole structure of aesthetic, sociological, and philosophical theory upon this fact.
Japan is erecting superlevees.
A vast steel structure, covered in artificial turf, would have been erected, upon which visitors could climb, play and enjoy a new view of London.
She dressed up her flivver in leaves and boughs, and erected upon it an evangelist's tent of sheets, on which was painted: "Jesus Saves!
It was during these years that Saint Petersburg was erected upon the marshes of the Baltic coast, and Lisbon resurrected from its earthquake of 1755.
In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his death.
A pared-down version of the indie PC hit, Pocket Edition offers the Creative mode from the main game, where you are provided with a random expanse of land upon which to erect your chosen structures.
"Histories founded upon truth, and wrote in a plain, easie and natural Stile," he once wrote, "are Sirloins of beef plainly dressed, wholesome, hearty and nourishing to a robust and healthy Stomach, but those erected upon fiction, and stuffed with Bombast and fustian phrases, are vapid, windy, unwholesome and adulterated with your damn'd sauces and pickles".
