, a person skilled in architecture, or the art of building; who forms plans and designs for edifices, conducts the work, and directs the various artificers employed in it.
The most celebrated architects are, Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, Vignola, Barbaro, Cataneo, Alberti, Viola, Inigo Jones, De Lorme, Perrault, S. Le Clerc, Sir Christopher Wren, and the Earl of Burlington.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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