Starchitect
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Starchitect is a noun meaning (informal) A celebrity architect.
Meaning
(informal) A celebrity architect.
Example Sentences
Despite this starchitect presence, Quito is not Manhattan and La Carolina is not Central Park.
Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect.
Gehry is more than an architect—he is a starchitect, a neologism coined to describe the small band of elite international architects whose personal brands transcend their buildings.
Word Forms
- starchitects
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include architect, starcher, stuccoer, stylizer, castlebuilder, stuccodor.
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