master builder

a building contractor.

a person skilled in the art of building; architect.

Origin of master builder

First recorded in 1550–60

Master Builder, The

a play (1892) by Ibsen.

You are not like a master-builder planning and erecting a house.

Our Lady Saint Mary |J. G. H. Barry
This game of contradiction is continued in The Master-Builder, a most potent exposition of human motives.

Egoists |James Huneker
A master-builder, who was a good shipwright, staid behind in Russia, where he lived a long time in obscurity.

The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia |Voltaire
Pershore, Gloucester, and Tewkesbury are by some considered to have been the production of one master-builder.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury |H. J. L. J. Mass

They recognize in the edifice the stone and also the stone-cutter, but no master-builder.

Homer's Odyssey |Denton J. Snider

master builder

a person skilled in the design and construction of buildings, esp before the foundation of the profession of architecture

a self-employed builder who employs labour