{"id":307,"date":"2010-06-14T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T10:26:39","slug":"what-exactly-is-the-difference-between-an-architect-and-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/what-exactly-is-the-difference-between-an-architect-and-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly is the difference between an architect and an engineer?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen in previous posts, the transition from working in the UK to Ireland can be described as &#8216;interesting&#8217; at best; one of the recurring questions I have been asked over the years is to explain the difference between an architect and an engineer. I am not sure whether this a curiously Irish (or even a West of Ireland) problem but here I hope to give guidance on when you need an architect.<\/p>\n<p>The problem arises (now that we&#8217;re in the deepest depths of recession) with any job very scarce to find that all professions are liable to grab at any project that comes available; if if they&#8217;re not qualified (or more importantly insured) to do it. So here goes, what is the difference ?<\/p>\n<p>The clues really are in the names:<\/p>\n<p>ENGINEER : ENGINE :  The root of engineer comes from the Latin <em>ingenium<\/em>, meaning ENGINE which referred to one\u2019s ability to create things, one\u2019s native genius and it is also the source of ingenious and ingenuity. Its first meaning in English, from about the fourteenth century, was very much this one of mother wit or genius, a skill in devising things. Such devises that would be &#8216;engineered&#8217; would originally be the stocks, then latterly beer and fire engines !<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the world has moved on since then and the profession of engineers is split into may different areas such as civil engineering, structural engineering etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Original text from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/articles\/engine.htm\">http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/articles\/engine.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARCHITECT : Comes from the Greek \u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9\u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u2013 arkhitekton, from \u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9- &#8220;chief&#8221; and \u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd &#8220;builder, carpenter&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the root of &#8216;arch&#8217; therefore is ruler, chief or creator (as in ARCH-Bishop) and the architect therefore is:<\/p>\n<p>ARCHITECT =<strong> The creator of a design or plan for a building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So therefore, if you want someone to help you plan your house, or to design the plans of your building then you should <strong>employ an architect<\/strong>. And if you want an architect in Ireland then you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/contact\">contact me <\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Next blog post will be on why architects and engineers should work together&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen in previous posts, the transition from working in the UK to Ireland can be described as &#8216;interesting&#8217; at best; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What exactly is the difference between an architect and an engineer?... - MARK STEPHENS ARCHITECTS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/what-exactly-is-the-difference-between-an-architect-and-an-engineer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What exactly is the difference between an architect and an engineer?... - MARK STEPHENS ARCHITECTS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As you may have seen in previous posts, the transition from working in the UK to Ireland can be described as &#8216;interesting&#8217; 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