Other forms: architects
An architect is the person who designs buildings and draws the plans they are built from. A local architect, the architect's drawings, she trained as an architect.
The title is legally protected in Britain: only somebody registered may call themselves an architect, which is not true of designer or draughtsman. Training takes seven years. The figurative sense is common and always about a plan rather than a building: the architect of the reforms, the architect of his own misfortune. Note software architect, which is a real job title in computing, and architecture, which means both the art of designing buildings and the structure of a system.
1nounarchitectSomebody who designs buildings.
“The architect walked them round the site twice.”
2nounplansSomebody who plans and creates something large.
“She was the architect of the whole reorganisation.”
architect is a designer.
Greek arkhitekton is arkhi-, chief, plus tekton, a builder or carpenter — the master builder. The same tekton gives technical and technology, so architecture and technology are the same craft named from two directions.
Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
Ancient Greek
ἀρχιτέκτων — master builder
Latin
architectus
Middle French
architecte
English, today
architect
Built from
From Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (“master builder”), from ἀρχι- (“chief”) + τέκτων (“builder”). by surface analysis, archi- + -tect.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA