The phrase "authority architect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is responsible for designing or establishing authority structures within an organization or system.
Example: "As the authority architect, she was tasked with creating a framework that defined roles and responsibilities across the team."
Alternatives: "governance designer" or "leadership strategist".
Britain has an international reputation when it comes to social housing and schools, built by local authority architects on restricted budgets from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Local authority architects, often men and women of keen intelligence and local knowledge, tended to go the way of council housing in the 1970s: down the plughole.
The story of Clissold leisure centre tells us that it is time to reconsider the role of local authority architects; we threw them overboard when we took up the witless chant "private good, public bad" 25 years ago.
Late Victorian and Edwardian pools such as Haggerston and Whitechapel, closed for the greater glory of the failed Clissold leisure centre, were designed in the main by local authority architects.
The new sports centre was well meant, but where were the tweed-jacketed, Pevsner-in-pocket local authority architects of yore to help ensure the design was the success it ought to have been?
The number of local-authority architects plummeted under a regime of cuts; the harsh winter of recession in 1990 finished them off.
The raw data powers the paper maps, but OS, which is a government-owned business, also sells it to water companies, local authorities, architects and city planners – anyone who needs to know every detail of the ground beneath our feet.
Ecological sanitation (EcoSan) concepts, relying on an environmentally sound management of water, nutrient and energy fluxes, have been poorly characterized in literature and are widely ignored by public planning authorities, architects or engineers.
With support of the Kiev city authorities, architect-restorer Y. Lositskiy and others restored the western part of the stone walls.
What quiet authority those architects possessed!
Randell L. Makinson is the foremost authority on architects Greene & Greene.
