architectonic

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But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The plowed field is the first architectonic production of humankind in a way, and that is very important to me.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

“Marquee Moon” is both architectonic and disorienting, blueprinted and unpredictable.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

"A monumental architectonic work, with dimensions comparable to those of the National Mall, in Washington, D.C.," wrote the New Yorker in 2016.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2022

Of what is rather affectedly called "architectonic," Hazlitt has nothing.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George