OFTEN architects must don white coats and investigate.
And the people who bought the first Apple Mac computers were often architects, designers and journalists.
Yet far too often, architects simply react to changes in the world, rather than serving as agents of change themselves.
More often, architects say, great design is the result of constant, sometimes painful give-and-take between the architect and the client.
The prominence of architecture in this scene is typical of the international style, in which painters were often architects as well.
Often architects, engineers and other actors design the workspaces on the basis of for example spatial, technological or financial considerations, thereby making industrial ergonomics a by-product of the design process.
In a statement it complained of "the introduction of a regime of fire risk self-assessment and the repeal of fire certificate legislation with oversight by the local fire authority", and said that too often architects were no longer responsible for the specification of materials, such decisions being left to contractors and sub-contractors.
Often, architects and critics stress the "democratic" or egalitarian virtues of vineyard-style seating, though the peculiar height of the Elbphilharmonie makes the lower seats, closest to the orchestra, more equal than others, especially the highest ones, which can inspire vertigo.
Developers all too often hire architects for the marketing value of their names, and watered-down versions of first-rate architects' work now litter the landscape.
For once, Lionel Messi was not the finisher, though he was often the architect of the threats.
