We have not the names of the minor architects and sculptors who were employed, but doubtless they were the scholars and followers of Suger, and rendered work in a similar manner.
It is a gigantic cathedral in which the lilliputian architects have displayed considerable art.
They do not build so well, no doubt, nor in so complex a fashion as modern architects and engineers, but they work in the same way.
These first arrangements made, the six-footed architectshave only to complete their constructions by new deposits from without.
Hard by at one time lived both the greatest architects of that age of building, Jones and Wren.
The Cambridge that Milton knew was the mother and the grandmother of the founders of states and of the architects of national constitutions and ideals.
The name given by architects to a compact mass of pebbles, sand and lime cemented together, in order to form the foundations of buildings.
The way in which every seat commanded the stage is a lesson to the architects of our epochs, as also the immense size of the place is a proof of extraordinary power of voice on the part of the Roman actors.
The architects and sculptors are the work of Philip; the poets, composers, and painters by Armstead; and while both have done admirably, it must be said that the reliefs by the latter are not surpassed by any modern sculpture.
There is no presumption in the high claims of the curators and architects of the South Kensington Museum for the principle and method of their building.
The general aim of this work is stated by the author, one of the ablest and most successful architects in England, in an introductory chapter from which I quote.
The Emperor summoned the bestarchitects and workers in precious stones of his time and asked them for designs.
The pointed arch, of which all Moslem architects were enamored, is shown in the main doorway and in the principal windows of the front.
It is not probable that temples and other public buildings were either beautiful or magnificent until the conquest of Greece, when Grecian architects were employed.
How far the Greek architects were indebted to the Egyptian we cannot tell, for though columns are found amid the ruins of the Egyptian temples, they are of different shape from any made by the Greeks.
The Civil War was a very bad time for architects and craftsmen, but after the Restoration a better time came to them again.
We do not hear very much of architects during the Middle Ages.
Towards the end of Norman times, in the reigns of Richard I and John, we reach what architects call the Transition Period, when the Norman style was gradually changing into the Early English or Pointed Style.
The play of fancy and invention of Shah Jehan's architects seems inexhaustible.
Just why these changes were made, perhaps the architects themselves could not have told; nor were they interested to enquire, supposing that they were made at the royal will.
Architects had submitted plans for the detailed ornamentation of the new seraglio which was rising on the Byzantine Point.
Other specimens of these two types of column vary widely from those of Karnak, for Egyptian architects did not feel obliged, like Greek architects, to conform, with but slight liberty of deviation, to established canons of form and proportion.
Egyptian architects were not gifted with a fine feeling for structural propriety or unity.
It was from such a form as this that the luxuriant type of Corinthian capital so much in favor with Roman architects and their public was derived.
Architects would gladly resort to the last-named material if it could be procured in sufficient size and mass without the difficulties attendant upon shrinkage in the burning, and the winding and unevenness of the lines thereby caused.
It is remarkable that the architects of Pompeii seem to have been careless for the most part whether they built on a regular or an irregular area.
The Christian architects carefully avoided the massive strata of the tufa lithoide, and we believe it is ascertained that all the known catacombs are driven exclusively along the courses of the tufa granolare.
In most theatres that I've been in thearchitects seemed to think that iron pillars and wooden heads are transparent.
Which only confirmed an early impression of his that architects were queer people--rather like artists and poets in some ways, but with a basis of bricks and mortar to them.
More than 170 architectssent in plans in the competition for a humane tenement that should be commercially profitable.
Secret apartments were constructed by skilful architects in noblemen's manors; recesses were artfully contrived under the roofs, in roomy staircases, or even in basements and cellars.
The minds of Irish architectshad not yet expanded to the conception of a St. Peter's.
In fact, before the palace "rose like an exhalation" at the bidding of the skilled architects employed by the government few persons knew anything about the Trocadéro at all.
Percier and Fontaine, the architects of the emperor, have left behind them a full account of the projects of their imperial master relative to the heights of Chaillot.
It had been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence.
Architects may suggest and execute, but the moving power must come from episcopal authority—that is the legitimate source.
But to erect these noble adjuncts to churches some considerable funds must be granted, and architects must not be expected, as has fallen to my lot, to build a sacristy and fittings for £40, and find some candlesticks into the bargain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "architects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
