architect

English

An architect at a drawing board.

Etymology

From Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “master builder”), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛkt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/

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Noun

architect (plural architects)

1. A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.

   Plato made the causes of things to be matter, ideas, and an efficient architect.

2. A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.

   Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

   • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.

3. (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.

Synonyms

• architector (obsolete)

Derived terms

• business architect
• ecoarchitect
• every man is the architect of his own fortune
• microarchitect
• naval architect
• software architect
• starchitect

 

Related terms

• architecture

 

Translations

designer of buildings

• Afrikaans: argitek (af)
• Albanian: mjeshtër i ndërtimit (sq), mjeshtëre e ndërtimit, ndërtimtar (sq) m, ndërtimtare f, arkitekt (sq) m, arkitekte (sq) f
• Arabic: مِعْمَارِيّ m (miʕmāriyy), مُهَنْدِس مِعْمَارِيّ m (muhandis miʕmāriyy)
• Armenian: ճարտարապետ (hy) (čartarapet)
• Asturian: arquiteutu (ast) m, arquitectu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: معمار (me'mār)

  Roman: memar (az), arxitektor

• Basque: arkitekto (eu)
• Belarusian: архітэ́ктар m (arxitéktar), архітэ́ктарка f (arxitéktarka)
• Bengali: স্থপতি (bn) (sthopoti)
• Bikol Central: arkitekto
• Bulgarian: архите́кт m (arhitékt), архите́ктка f (arhitéktka)
• Burmese: ဗိသုကာ (my) (bi.su.ka)
• Catalan: arquitecte (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 建築師／建筑师 (gin³ zuk¹ si¹), 設計師／设计师 (cit³ gai³ si¹)

  Hokkien: 建築師／建筑师 (zh-min-nan) (kiàn-tio̍k-su), 設計師／设计师 (zh-min-nan) (siat-kè-su)

  Mandarin: 建築師／建筑师 (zh) (jiànzhúshī), 設計師／设计师 (zh) (shèjìshī)

• Czech: architekt (cs) m, architektka f
• Danish: arkitekt (da) c
• Dutch: architect (nl) m, bouwmeester (nl) m
• Esperanto: arĥitekto, arkitekto, arĥitekturisto, arkitekturisto
• Estonian: arhitekt (et)
• Faroese: byggilistafólk n
• Finnish: arkkitehti (fi)
• French: architecte (fr) m or f
• Galician: arquitecto (gl) m, arquitecta f
• Georgian: არქიტექტორი (arkiṭekṭori), ხუროთმოძღვარი (xurotmoʒɣvari)
• German: Architekt (de) m, Architektin (de) f
• Greek: αρχιτέκτονας (el) m or f (architéktonas)

  Ancient: ἀρχιτέκτων m (arkhitéktōn)

• Greenlandic: arkitekti
• Haitian Creole: achitèk
• Hebrew: אַדְרִיכָל (he) m (adrikhál), אדריכלית f (adrikhalít)
• Hiligaynon: arkitekto
• Hindi: वास्तुकार m (vāstukār)
• Hungarian: (tervező) építész, építészmérnök (hu)
• Icelandic: arkitekt (is) m
• Indonesian: arsitek (id)
• Ingrian: arhitektori
• Irish: ailtire m
• Italian: architetto (it) m, architetta (it) f
• Japanese: 建築家 (ja) (けんちくか, kenchikuka)
• Kazakh: сәулетші (säuletşı)
• Khmer: អ្នកគូរប្លង់ (nĕək kuu plɑng), និម្មាបនិក (km) (nɨmmiəpaʼnɨk)
• Korean: 건축가(建築家) (ko) (geonchukga)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mîmar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: архитектор (ky) (arhitektor), башкуруучу (başkuruucu)
• Lao: ສະຖາປະນິກ (sa thā pa nik)
• Latin: architectus m
• Latvian: arhitekts m
• Lithuanian: architektas m
• Macedonian: архитект m (arhitekt)
• Malay: arkitek, jurubina (ms)
• Maltese: perit m
• Manx: ard-obbree m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: архитектор (arxitektor)

• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arkitekt m

  Nynorsk: arkitekt m

• Occitan: arquitècte (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: معمار (mi'mâr)
• Pashto: معمار m (me'mãr)
• Persian: معمار (fa) (me'mâr), مهراز (fa) (mehrâz)
• Phoenician: 𐤐𐤋𐤔 m (plš)
• Plautdietsch: Bümeista m (Chortitza)
• Polish: architekt (pl) m or f, architektka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arquiteto (pt) m, arquiteta (pt) f
• Punic: 𐤐𐤋𐤔 m (plš)
• Romanian: arhitect (ro) m, arhitectă (ro) f
• Russian: архите́ктор (ru) m (arxitéktor), зо́дчий (ru) m (zódčij)
• Sardinian: architetu m
• Scottish Gaelic: ailteir m, ailtire m, dealbhadair thogalach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: архитекта m, архѝтект m

  Roman: arhitekta (sh) m, arhìtekt (sh) m

• Slovak: architekt m, architektka f
• Slovene: arhitekt (sl) m
• Spanish: arquitecto (es), arquitecta f
• Swahili: msanifuujenzi
• Swedish: arkitekt (sv) c
• Tagalog: arkitekto
• Tajik: меъмор (meʾmor)
• Thai: สถาปนิก (sà-tǎa-bpà-ník)
• Turkish: mimar (tr)
• Turkmen: arhitektor (tk)
• Ukrainian: архіте́ктор (uk) m (arxitéktor), архіте́кторка f (arxitéktorka)
• Urdu: معمار m (memār), ارکیٹیکٹ m (arkīṭekṭ)
• Uyghur: ئارخىتېكتور (arxitëktor), بىناكار (binakar)
• Uzbek: arxitektor (uz), meʼmor (uz)
• Vietnamese: kiến trúc sư (vi) (建築師)
• Volapük: (epicene) bumavan (vo), (male) hibumavan, (female) jibumavan
• Welsh: pensaer (cy) m
• Yiddish: אַרכיטעקט m (arkhitekt)

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• Albanian: arkitekt (sq) m, arkitekte (sq) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 締造者／缔造者 (zh) (dìzàozhě), 創造者／创造者 (zh) (chuàngzàozhě)

• Estonian: arhitekt (et), kavandaja
• Finnish: arkkitehti (fi), suunnittelija (fi), rakentaja (fi)
• Greek: αρχιτέκτονας (el) m or f (architéktonas)
• Italian: ideatore (it) m, ideatrice (it) f
• Korean: 설계자(設計者) (ko) (seolgyeja), 계획자(計劃者) (gyehoekja)
• Latin: architectus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arkitekt m

  Nynorsk: arkitekt m

• Polish: architekt (pl) m or f, architektka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arquiteto (pt) m, arquiteta (pt) f
• Romanian: arhitect (ro) m, creator (ro) m
• Tagalog: arkitekto

Verb

architect (third-person singular simple present architects, present participle architecting, simple past and past participle architected)

1. (transitive) To design, plan, or orchestrate.

   He architected the military coup against the government.

   • 1857, Mary Andrews Denison, Gracie Amber‎^[2]:

     Dacker was his own architect, (or, as he sometimes said, he architected his own fortunes,) and his own carpenter.

   • 1894 December 14, The Electrical Review‎^[3], volume 35, page 720:

     It is interesting to record that the excavating and the laying of the pipes for the mains have been done by the Corporation employés under the supervision and control of Mr. Harpur, the borough engineer, who, by the way, architected the station.

Derived terms

• rearchitect

Translations

to design, plan or orchestrate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 設計／设计 (zh) (shèjì), 打算 (zh) (dǎsuàn), 計劃／计划 (zh) (jìhuà)

• Finnish: suunnitella (fi)
• French: architecturer (fr)
• Portuguese: arquitetar (pt)
• Romanian: arhitectura, concepe (ro)

Dutch

An architect at a drawing board.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑrxiˈtɛkt/, /ˌɑrʃiˈtɛkt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ar‧chi‧tect
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Noun

architect m (plural architecten, diminutive architectje n, feminine architecte)

1. architect

Synonyms

• bouwmeester

Derived terms

• architectenbureau
• binnenhuisarchitect
• landschapsarchitect
• tuinarchitect

Related terms

• architectuur

Descendants

• Afrikaans: argitek
• → Indonesian: arsitèk
• → Javanese: ꦲꦂꦱꦶꦠꦺꦒ꧀ (arsitèg)
• → Papiamentu: arshitèkt, architect