In France, at about the same time, Etienne-Louis Boullée perpetrated buildings on a superhuman scale, fired by the idea of the supreme authority of architecture.
Authority in architecture has now passed in part from its traditional external sources -- religion, social hierarchy, history or technology -- toward the psychological landscape where moods, tastes, memories and atmospheres are formed.
He became what The Louisville Courier-Journal called "the pre-eminent authority on Kentucky architecture," writing "Antebellum Houses of the Blue Grass" (University of Kentucky Press, 1961) and "Architecture of Antebellum Kentucky" (same publisher, 1991).
When his handbook for Roman architects, De architectura, was rediscovered in the early 15th century, Vitruvius was at once hailed as the authority on classical architecture.
As an authority on English architecture and topography, he did much to popularize Victorian and Edwardian building and to protect what remained of it from destruction.
She was a preservationist, authority on cast-iron architecture and author of books on architecture and public sculpture who was relentless in protecting New York's 19th century architectural heritage.
The drawing of borders and the creation of orders around new resources profoundly rework patterns of authority and institutional architectures.
An architecture without authority risks becoming one without clients.
He is regarded as one of the foremost designers and noted authority on ecologically responsive architecture and planning.
Throughout the antique revival of the Renaissance, the classical phase of the Baroque, and in the Neoclassical period, his work was the chief authority on ancient classical architecture.
