starchitect
/ˈstɑːkɪtɛkt
/noun informal, chiefly derogatory
A famous or high-profile architect: a welcome departure from the ego-driven era of the starchitect...
- The future historians of the built environment of Blairism won't be consulting back issues of AD or the glossy monographs of the starchitect.
- There are far worse fates for American art than to be hung in a public museum - especially one designed by starchitect Moshe Safdie.
- The grad program at Columbia in the mid-1990s...was less a school of architecture than a breeding ground for young starchitects.
Derivatives
starchitecture
- Even with collaboration, producing "starchitecture" is far from easy.
- It's not necessarily brand-name starchitecture that inflates building costs.
- But one toxic result of recent 'starchitecture' culture is the steady stream of theoretical bafflegab that pours from architectural schools and journals.
Origin
1940s (denoting a film star who designed a house): blend of star (sense 3 of the noun) and architect.