starchitect
nounEtymology Blend of star + architect.
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Informal A celebrity architect.
- Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect.2009 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag”, in New York Times:
- 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.2012, Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, New York: The Penguin Press, page 104:
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- Despite this starchitect presence, Quito is not Manhattan and La Carolina is not Central Park.2025 May 31, Edwin Heathcote, “A new angle on Quito”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
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