Sentence examples for architecture serve from inspiring English sources

"I think some of the museums being designed lately are a little too exciting architecturally," Venturi said, underscoring his intention that the architecture serve as a background for the art.

What cultural value, apart from design, will the architecture serve?

For Mr. Romberg the functional methods of architecture serve as a container for his conceptual investigations.

Loops and tertiary architecture serve as mounting dovetails or wedges to eliminate external linking dowels.

On the one hand, highly conductive Ag-DCYs with "twining spring" architecture serve as the elastic substrate of the electrode.

Eight Inc.'s minimal design intervention (viewable online) lets the existing classical architecture serve as a gateway to the virtual world.

A resort clearly revealed its place in the market when the hotels lacked architectural distinction (or even anything that could fairly be termed architecture), served buffet-only meals and covered their lobby walls with information on the movements of the local reps of mass-market tour operators.

In a 1928 article for The Architectural Record, Kahn wrote of the importance of making sure that architecture served the real estate engine that made it go, even if it "raises the brow of the aesthete at something which smacks of the commercial".

Lorna Simpson says, "He's very keen on the way architecture serves the people in it".

The surviving abbey nave, a fine example of massive Norman architecture, served as a parish church until 1821.

John Barton, a lecturer in architecture, served as the faculty adviser throughout the competition.