The Board of Directors of the Security Bank of Manhattan has chosen you as the architect for our building.

As an industrial engineer, cum aspiring and then successful entrepreneur.

When I was trained as an engineer in Silicon Valley, I was taught this as the manufacturing metaphor of software development.

I mean it is astonishing for an artist, for an architect, to become actually an icon and a legend in their own time.

When these ideas were handed down to me as a Silicon Valley engineer, they looked like this.

Well, first you have to, as an engineer, scope the problem. How big is it?

So I went back to my college and became a typical Japanese worker as a systems engineer.

Did that require, as an architect, a new way of thinking about what you were doing?

I was frustrated I was working as a software engineer in this huge, very exciting lab,

As an architect, I often ask myself, what is the origin of the forms that we design?

So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility.

From there he went to Univac as a software designer and later to Xerox as an operating system architect.

Duarte returned to the country in 1979 to enter politics after working on projects in Venezuela as an engineer.

In his late twenties he entered into private practice as a professional engineer with special expertise in water transport.

As an architect, wood is the only material, big material, that I can build with that's already grown by the power of the sun.

He is a chemical engineer with more than 25 years of international experience in industrial management, international trade development and management consulting.

Creative Kingdom then served as Design Architect for the 3 phases of development with DSA Architects (Dubai South Africa) serving as Architect of Record.

And the thing that I realized is there was no way that I, as an engineer, could write this book that would get all of this across.

I was frustrated I was working as a software engineer in this huge, very exciting lab, lots of people coming from all over the world.

I have been a systems engineer, a systems administrator, a senior advisor for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Now, as an architect, part to whole relationships is all I think about, but in terms of product design it's becoming more and more of an issue for companies.

So, symmetry wasn't the sign of order and organization which is what I was always understanding, and as is an architect symmetry was the absence of information.

But then I was very disappointed at my profession as an architect, because we are not helping, we are not working for society, but we are working for privileged people, rich people, government, developers.

Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, has worked as an architect for 20 years and was involved in the construction of numerous fireproof steel frame buildings.

As one observer put it, Rice s ambition is not just to be a gardener she wants to be a landscape architect.

Calvo Sotelo graduated as a civil engineer from the School of Civil Engineers of Madrid now part of the Technical University of Madrid, working in the area of applications of chemistry to the industry.

Like my dad, for example, was a chemical engineer and I don't recall once in his 40 years of chemical engineering anybody asking him if he was afraid to be a chemical engineer, you know?

So perhaps we could develop a strategy of change, which requires humility. And in my business as an architect, it's unfortunate the word humility and the word architect have not appeared in the same paragraph since The Fountainhead.

And when you get at the end of that product I mean as an engineer, I kept having over and over again the experience of working on amazing technology that is today sitting on a shelf or worse, that fundamentally nobody is using.

At the end, I consider myself, to be connected 24 7 on the net, especially that my job as a telecommunication engineer tightens that link and I believe that most of us are in this situation in one way or another. Accordingly my hobbies and activities in the virtual world are somehow the reflection of those in the real one.