Adj. An object or building with interesting or clear design aspects. Something that it looks like someone went to great pains to design, with great results.
Man that pencil holder is architected. That podiumsure was architected!
Someone whose work is purely theoretical, having never come to fruition, or has never been exemplified by anything in the real world.
"He was a tenured professor of architecture—a position buttressed by his renown as a 'paperarchitect.'
That is to say, he was an esteemed architect whose reputation rested on his designs, rather than on the buildings constructed from them."
—Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli
insincere, inauthentic, dishonest, and ugly building design meant to meet the bare code, legal and zoning requirements for standing domiciles whilst achieving one goal and one goal only : making money off the public and usually in the most blunt, crass and direct way.
Wal-Mart Inc. employs fuck you architecture in almost all of its' stores and surrounding properties.