architect
/ˈɑːkɪtɛkt
/noun
1A person who designs buildings and in many cases also supervises their construction: the great Norman architect of Durham Cathedral...
- A council spokeswoman later confirmed that the authority had now put out tenders for landscape design architects, building architects and quantity surveyors.
- Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity.
- I actually emailed the architects who designed the building, just before I found this site.
Synonyms
designer, planner, builder, building consultant, draughtsman
1.1A person who is responsible for inventing or realizing a particular idea or project: the architects of the reform programme...
- The chief architect of this project is the President, with whom Dr. Nair has associated.
- He's one of the chief architects of the drug plan for seniors that people talked so much about in the closing days of last year.
- I am not only a follower, but I could say that I am the architect of this idea with concrete mechanisms and stages for its achievement.
Synonyms
originator, author, creator, instigator, founder, father, mother, founding father, prime mover;
engineer, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind;
cause, agent
literary begetter
verb [with object] Computing
Design and configure (a program or system): (as adjective architected) an architected information interface...
- In response to congestion, the Fibre Channel protocol uses a very carefully architected system of fabric device communications and credit-based transmissions in order to ensure network stability and traffic integrity.
- Client/server computing models are giving way to more flexible, Web-based architectures providing the required combination of feature-rich applications and Internet architected infrastructures.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French architecte, from Italian architetto, via Latin from Greek arkhitektōn, from arkhi- 'chief' + tektōn 'builder'.