Examples of architectonic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Georgia had painted stylized architectonic forms, but never using the vocabulary of dynamic symmetry, never interlayering the geometric forms and the actual shapes. — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2019 Spanish Colonial Revival designs were often asymmetrical and included elements such as a tower (torreón), basements and pitched, red-tile roofs — architectonic flourishes that were not in use during the Mexican colony. — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018 And what the documentary series did for me was to force me to confront the reality of what happened, its enormity, its nihilism, and its architectonic role in precipitating the unraveling of this country. — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Oct. 2017 There was so much fun to be had at the old Boston Garden, an architectonic bad dream of a building for visiting teams. — Colin Fleming, SI.com, 11 June 2017 Grosvenor’s architectonic construction from the prior year takes another step down a sculptural road the artists shared. — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 31 May 2017 These architectonic prostitutions are welcomed in Italy, and rapacious alien ineptitude is passed off as talented invention and as extremely up-to-date architecture. — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2008

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