What's the difference between architect and palladian?

Architect


Definition:

  • (n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
  • (n.) A contriver, designer, or maker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (2) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
  • (3) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
  • (4) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
  • (5) Why, they reasoned, would voters invite the architects of the Iraq war to resume control of US foreign policy?
  • (6) Senior figures in the Lockerbie case – including Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack, and Professor Robert Black, a lawyer and architect of the trial of two Libyans accused of the atrocity – have said they believe Koussa might have significant information about Libya's role.
  • (7) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (8) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
  • (9) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
  • (10) True to her interest in art and architecture, Prada has set up a foundation to promote art exhibitions and off-the-wall projects like the Prada Transformer – a building by architect Rem Koolhaas in Seoul which changes shape depending on its function.
  • (11) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
  • (12) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
  • (13) Prevention of children's accidents in the home consists of increased information to families with children, to architects and manufacturers and increased attention to safety in the home by legislation and guidelines.
  • (14) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson ­Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
  • (15) The exposure of unsavoury candidates, allegations of racism and attempts at character assassination of Nigel Farage can be traced to Lynton Crosby , the architect of Conservative strategy who is a veteran of battles with the far-right Pauline Hanson in Australia.
  • (16) Separately, video advertising specialist BrightRoll has recruited one of the key architect's behind the commercial success of Mail Online to head up its UK and European business to focus on growing programmatic video revenues.
  • (17) International negotiations extend over long periods of time and there are significant steps that we still have to undertake, but the important thing is to continue to make forward progress.” Rich countries accused of foiling effort to give poorer nations a voice on tax Read more Manuel Montes , however, senior adviser on finance and development at the South Centre in Geneva and one of the architects of the financing for development process, felt developing countries had lost more than they had gained.
  • (18) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
  • (19) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
  • (20) He said there were "jobs for doctors, nurses, architects, builders, even for street cleaners in the Islamic State".

Palladian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a daunting figure.
  • (2) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
  • (3) From the Knockree hostel, I completed a splendid 20km circular road-walk that took in Powerscourt, an 18th-century Palladian mansion whose formal grounds are considered the finest in Ireland.
  • (4) You also pass the glorious gardens of Prior Park, including one of only four of the world's Palladian bridges.
  • (5) Aspinall always had a fascination with wild animals and in 1958 he founded Howletts, a Palladian mansion standing in 70 acres bought following a substantial win.
  • (6) Beyond the effusive welcome of the enormous weeping willow, beyond the well-tended lawns grazed by peacocks and Canada geese, beyond the gardeners patiently watering the ornamental shrubberies, stand two equally effulgent but very different Palladian buildings, each in their own space and each exuding a sense of timeless solidity.
  • (7) Keep your eyes peeled for Just across the river from Ham House is Marble Hill House, an 18th-century Palladian mansion, which is accessible via a short ferry crossing.
  • (8) The Palladian abbey, with its 3,000 acres of deer park, is currently the home to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and their kids, which adds snooping value to the stately pile.

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