starchitect

English

Etymology

Blend of star +‎ architect.

Noun

starchitect (plural starchitects)

  1. (informal) A celebrity architect.
    • 2009 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 2025 May 31, Edwin Heathcote, “A new angle on Quito”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 10:
      Despite this starchitect presence, Quito is not Manhattan and La Carolina is not Central Park.

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References

  • Davide Ponzini and Michele Nastasi, STARCHITECTURE: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities. Turin, Allemandi, 2011.

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