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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Starchitect
Synonyms for "starchitect"
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1 entries- starchitecte noun (A celebrity architect)
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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.
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Despite this starchitect presence, Quito is not Manhattan and La Carolina is not Central Park.
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