The phrase "a former architect of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who previously held the position of an architect, often in the context of discussing their past roles or contributions.
Example: "She is a former architect of the city's most iconic buildings, having played a crucial role in their design and development."
Alternatives: "an ex-architect of" or "a past architect of".
Elizabeth-Ann Campbell Knapp, a former architect and chairman of the Campbell Family Foundation, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Princeton, N.J.
Painter Dennis Hollingsworth (a former architect) made suggestions of floating walls in Kohn Gallery's architectural design.
Siki Im, a former architect and one of the most stringently modern designers in New York City, showed a more vulnerable side too.
Ms. Jagger divides her time primarily between the Spanish island of Ibiza and London -- where she works in a former architect's office adorned with photos of her in high party mode -- but she might just as easily turn up in Mustique or Los Angeles, befitting the globe-trotting life she inherited from her parents.
It tells the story of Bernadette, a former architect who won a MacArthur "genius" grant and then disappeared from public view; her tech-guru husband, Elgin Branch, who is nerd-famous for an especially rousing TED talk; and their precocious teenage daughter, Bee, who has convinced her parents to go on a family trip to Antarctica before she heads off to boarding school.
Ambrose describes the former architect of the group as a 'cancer' and says he will get what's coming to him for stabbing them in the back.
Weiss, the former architect of the great Yankees teams of the 1940's and 1950's, hired Casey Stengel, the former Yankees manager, as the Mets' manager.
But West, the Grizzlies' president of basketball operations and former architect of the Los Angeles Lakers, has impeccable instincts for building teams.
As the former architect of President Obama's open government plans, Mayor Emanuel can go even further by consulting the following recommendations on how to put government content to creative use, as other American cities are doing.
Don't Hire The Sharks Too often, tech firms hire the former architects of big government because of their supposed experience in working the system.
