The fact is that artists are more glamorous than architects.
He was editor in chief of the four-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, published in 1982, a collection of biographies of more than 2,000 architects, from builders of ancient Egypt to avant-garde 20th-century architects.
For example, while there are more than 150,000 architects in Mexico, there are only 1,000 landscape architects.
The founder and design director of Singapore-based SCDA Architects, Mr Chan has over the past 20 years built up a business that today employs more than 100 architects and designers.
With more than 300 architects, the firm offers an immense range of services beyond architecture -- landscape design, historic preservation, graphics.
There are more than 90 architects and 140 projects represented with models, drawings, videos and actual chunks of building.
In July 2000 the museum's board requested proposals from more than 100 architects; five finalists were chosen.
Foster & Partners, which employs more than 300 architects, achieves great artistic vitality today by mining the expressive potential of low-energy construction.
The firm, by then with Betty and John Metcalfe as partners, was never more than eight architects strong, until a larger partnership was formed, with Eric Lyons, Metcalfe and Ivor Cunningham, specifically for a large job - the World's End estate.
