Sentence examples for architect from inspiring English sources

He worked as a video architect for the agency.

In the second book, Un Corbusier, the architect and academic François Chaslin, who is an admirer of the architect, is unstinting in his descriptions and analysis of Le Corbusier's links to fascist groups and ideologies, and points out that at one stage Le Corbusier maintained an office for 18 months under the Vichy government.

In what appears to be an early application of art therapy, new research suggests that the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí used the garden of a psychiatric hospital as a testing ground for his revolutionary designs, with the patients serving as his artisans.

The relative crudeness of the work suggested until now that the works were copies, but research published in the magazine Sapiens by the architect David Agulló and the geologist Daniel Barbé shows that they pre-date Gaudí's signature buildings and were in fact prototypes for features in Park Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the nearby Colònia Güell, all of which Gaudí was working on at the time.

"I don't know if I'll try to be an architect just yet.

This goes even further and signals an ideological break with the time of Tony Blair, who was the first architect of academies.

The original design, begun in 1973 and completed in 1979, had clean bright simple lines influenced by the German architect Mies van der Rohe, with lots of natural light and plants.

Located above fashionable Camps Bay and designed by a leading South African architect, this pad is made up of a main house with five double bedrooms and a penthouse with two doubles, and can be rented separately or as a whole.

"It is truly indescribable," says Sami Angawi, architect and founder of the Jeddah-based Hajj Research Centre, who has spent the last three decades researching and documenting the historic buildings of Mecca and Medina, few of which now remain.

He was the architect for Swaleside Prison, on the Isle of Sheppey, and managed the £80m repair and modernisation of Strangeways Prison, in Manchester, after it was badly damaged by rioting prisoners in 1990.

SBD has its roots in the idea of "defensible space", created by the American architect and town planner Oscar Newman in the early 1970s, as a result of research he carried out in three deprived New York housing projects.