Sentence examples for eminent architectural from inspiring English sources

"If I had to show a foreigner one English city and one only, to give him a balanced idea of English architecture," wrote the eminent architectural historian John Summerson, "I should take him to Bristol, which has developed in all directions, and where nearly everything has happened".

Even the eminent architectural historian Dan Cruickshank was lost for words when I challenged him to think of another domestic-scale building that was as significant as the Soane Museum.

When St Pancras was threatened with destruction in 1966, eminent architectural historians - including Nikolaus Pevsner and tireless conservationists, notably John Betjeman - fought a vigorous campaign to shame British Railways and Harold Wilson's government.

The eminent architectural historian Howard Colvin claimed that "a dull competence pervaded all his work", while the country house architectural expert Mark Girouard has described Blore as "a bit of a bore".

The self-taught Japanese master Tadao Ando, today's pre-eminent architectural minimalist, is no intellectual theorist.

His work owes as much to Diane Arbus and Henri Cartier-Bresson as to Julius Shulman or Ezra Stoller, the pre-eminent architectural photographers of the late 20th century.

After the Communist victory in 1949, Beijing was restored as the nation's capital, and the country's pre-eminent architectural expert, Liang Sicheng, was asked to develop a city plan.

Ferenc David, an eminent Hungarian architectural historian, praised the Gresham's development partners for putting "the needs of the building over the needs of the hotel".

The most eminent husband-and-wife architectural team to emerge since Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who work in New York, remain inexplicably underexposed, notwithstanding their towering talent and high reputation among architectural insiders.

James Lees-Milne, architectural historian and pre-eminent diarist, worked for the National Trust for many years.

The palace's architectural style is equally confused, once described by Turkey's pre-eminent modern chronicler, John Freely, as "an eclectic anachronism" that combines "elements of imitation Seljuk, mock-Georgian, neo-Armenian and rococo Ottoman".