Sentence examples for architectural debate from inspiring English sources

Few structures in Britain have so dominated the skyline or the architectural debate.

The broader political climate carries the same aura of unreality as the ground zero architectural debate.

He sought to expand the architectural debate, building on Martin's scientific research, but also introducing a critical and philosophical dimension.

But, after years of legal-wrangling and architectural debate, the modernist Les Halles complex in central Paris is finally on course for a facelift.

A combination of iconoclasm and mental fecundity kept Price at the forefront of architectural debate, enthusing new generations of students and architects as he had once impressed his elders at the Cambridge Society of Arts.

Worse, they inflame the utterly sterile and boring Prince v architects, traditionalists v modernists controversy, which has done so much to lower the level of architectural debate in this country for 27 years.

During the architectural debates of the nineteen-eighties, when the field fractured into the "Whites" (devoted adherents of stripped-down, high-minded modernism) and the "Grays" (the renegade postmodernists, playfully mixing it up with ornament and pastiche), Stern was one of the latter camp's most prominent members.

Because architectural debates are embedded in wider reflection of a culture, they are shaped as much by cliches as by ideas that are current at any time.

The proposed stepped structure of metal and glass would have been 1,000 feet high, anticipating by three decades the earliest U.S. plans for skyscrapers — a detail overlooked by American architectural historians debating just who should be credited for the earliest high rise.

As for the debate over architectural style, Ms. Waroff, an architectural critic and writer, said additions to historic structures that mimicked their style often distorted the proportions of the original buildings.

Scott's restorations were not without their critics and caused much debate in architectural circles.