architect(n = noun.person) designer - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings);
is a kind of creator
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1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. [1913 Webster]
2. A contriver, designer, or maker. [1913 Webster]
"The architects of their own happiness." [1913 Webster]
"A French woman is a perfect architect in dress." [1913 Webster]
architect, n.
1 a designer who prepares plans for buildings, ships, etc., and supervises their construction.
2 (foll. by of) a person who brings about a specified thing (the architect of his own fortune).
Etymology:
F architecte f. It. architetto, or L architectus f. Gk arkhitekton (as ARCH-, tekton builder)
N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.
N producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover.