[devjab]

I recently saw a news story about a Danish inventor who had come up with a coffee lid which uses, and I’m sorry to say I forgot how much less but it was around 25% materials. I was expecting him to be some sort of engineer or designer but he was in fact an architect.

Out of curiosity I looked into it and apparently a lot of our inventors of brilliant stuff like that are architects, so I guess that goes along with what this author is saying.

[rurban]

Architects are generalists. I'm also architect, but worked also in stage design, film, formula 1 engine testing and simulation, internet pioneer, compilers and now embedded SW engineer.

Hans Hollein btw. is very disliked in Austria, btw. Our engineering architecture heros are not from Vienna, but Graz, Innsbruck or Vorarlberg.

[robertlagrant]

Architect means "master builder", but I think you will get a spectrum of people along that. Some will be people who can still be called master builder, but others will focus more on pure design with some project management and quality control.

[pavlov]

One noteworthy thing about architecture is that it’s a field of design where execution is extremely expensive and often politically fraught. The majority of architects’ designs are either never built, or transformed into something nearly unrecognizable along the way.

For this reason many architects end up seeking smaller design challenges where they can still leverage their understanding of materials and people flows. A coffee pot isn’t so far removed from that after all.