Starchitect

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A celebrity architect. informal

    "Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect."

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"Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect."

Etymology

Blend of star + architect.

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