Author

The authorship of a building, unlike that of a novel, isn't the work of a single soul: it owes as much to the imagination of the client as the penmanship of the design hand. However each has the role of the author as described by novelist John Irving, paraphrased as "to strengthen weak hearts and soften hard hearts".

For clients it is in leading sometimes nervous people to develop and hold to a visionary brief; for architects it's designing an environment which will effect just that change in the people who inhabit it.