The phrase "architect of the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is the creator or designer of an initial version or prototype of something.
Example: "He is often regarded as the architect of the first successful electric car."
Alternatives: "creator of the first" or "designer of the first".
Roth was the architect of the first Central Park West twin, the San Remo, between 74th and 75th Streets.
Inman, a former deputy CIA director and retired navy admiral, was an architect of the first major surveillance reform, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
There could be layer upon layer of simulations until you finally reached the architect of the first simulation — the Prime Designer, let's call him or her (or it).
The youngest of Sir Robert's sons, Horace Walpole — writer of the first Gothic novel and architect of the first neo-Gothic building, Strawberry Hill, near London — eventually became master of Houghton Hall and 4th Earl of Orford in 1791.
In 1938 in Old Westbury, Edward Durell Stone, the architect of the first Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, built the Goodyear House, a weekend retreat with curving walls, a flat roofline and large expanses of glass.
But this time he did so as first minister of Scotland, the architect of the first ever majority in the Scottish Parliament, the man who smashed Labour's dominance at Holyrood and who almost precipitated the break-up of the 307-year-old United Kingdom.
Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century.
Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991.
Sané was the architect of the second goal, dropping his shoulder to destroy Shkodran Mustafi before squaring for Sergio Agüero.
General Kvashnin is a land warrior, a veteran of the first Russian onslaught against Chechnya (in 1994-96) and architectect of the second.
Alvar Aalto (1898 197676) was much more than a designer of pretty flower vases, he is considered the most important Finnish architect of the twentieth century.
