Sentence examples for high architects from inspiring English sources

So even architects like Frank Gehry stayed away from shopping altogether? A. Actually, early in his career, Gehry was one of the few "high architects" who saw shopping as a legitimate pursuit.

The pact between high architects and developers, to them, is a Faustian bargain in which the architect is nothing more than a marketing tool, there to provide a cultural veneer for the big, bad developers whose only interest is in wringing as much profit as possible from their projects.

At most, Kant tells us, the proof could establish a "highest architect of the world…., but not a creator of the world".

IF one measure of a city is its architecture, Hartford is poised for a growth spurt as three of the city's major cultural institutions have announced multimillion-dollar building projects by high profile architects.

In this sense Alexander "occasionally exhibits a fetish for form that would rival the most fastidious of the high style architects… [and that] Alexander's insistence in getting every detail 'right' serves to undercut the larger paradigmatic change by leaving the dweller dependent on nothing more than a different kind of aesthetic expert" (Dovey 1990, p 7).

There are also risks inherent in hiring high-profile architects.

High-profile architects such as Norman Foster are enlisted for projects, and good design is nurtured.

Several high-profile architects signed a petition denouncing such interference with an architectural treasure.

The Villa Trissino was rebuilt to a plan reminiscent of designs of Baldassarre Peruzzi, an important High Renaissance architect.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron should not relinquish their day jobs as high-profile architects in order to become curators or installation artists anytime soon.

At a time when many high-profile architects are challenging the city's skyline with unorthodox designs, Mr. Kondylis's more conventional style can seem like a throwback.