Sentence examples for architectural patron from inspiring English sources

Krens has been a great architectural patron.

Today, he is one of the country's leading real-estate developers, and, as such, an important architectural patron.

He set out to make the L.M.D.C., at least for a few months at the end of 2002, into the most conspicuous architectural patron in the world.

In Rome he also met the Earl of Burlington, the foremost architectural patron of the 18th century in England and the principal promoter of Andrea Palladio's classical building style (Palladianism).

What we do know is that the young stonecutter Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was discovered at about the age of 30 by the poet, dramatist, diplomat and architectural patron Giangiorgio Trissino, who took his protege to Rome.

The influence that Eli Broad has had on the built landscape of Los Angeles over the last two decades has been wide-ranging, as I pointed out in a piece on Sunday exploring his legacy as an architectural patron.

They were great architectural patrons and constructed numerous mosques, madrasahs (Islāmic religious schools), hospitals, orphanages, baths, caravansaries, bridges, and türbes notable for their decorative masonry, elaborately ornamented portals, and use of Kūfic script as an architectural decorative device.

Maggie's centres have proved one of the most imaginative and sensitive architectural patrons this year, with the opening of two new cancer care buildings, in Nottingham, by Piers Gough and Paul Smith, and Swansea, by Kisho Kurokawa.

The fact that he had another project on the Stirling shortlist outside the UK, the America's Cup pavilion in Valencia, suggests Britain's architectural patrons should be giving themselves a double kicking.

Possibly as a result, he focused more attention on his palaces and houses; Henry was, according to architectural historian John Goodall, "the most obsessive patron of art and architecture ever to have occupied the throne of England".

It is possible to plan small ideal towns as found in Renaissance Italy, the Cambrian coast of Wales at Portmeirion, a romantic holiday town designed by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, or in the depths of Dorset where Poundbury waves a flag for the traditional architectural values of this new town's patron, the Prince of Wales.