An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.
To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the designDesign shapes ideas to become practical solutions and propositions for customers and users. Design is all around us, everything man made has been designed. The majority of designers work in teams, following a design brief and a process towards realising a commercially driven product, building, system or service of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose.