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Originally Posted by mhays
You can still be a "lead designer" without being licensed. One route is to become renowned as a design icon to the point where your name makes a project more marketable, and then partnering with a real architect to handle the technical details. Or becoming a wealthy developer and hiring architects to assist you and take responsibility for (and stamp) the drawings. Another route that's probably defunct is to be an architect somewhere that doesn't require a license, and then act like my first option (such as Pritzker winner Tadeo Ando of Japan).
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Thanks for the input; this seems like the best approach for someone outside of the field of architecture, who doesn't want to spend another decade studying.
I guess I'll have to work on my own "brand", making (I hope) more successful products and get to know developers / architects, then start with a few projects with them....
Having read, seen and talked to a few famous architects, I had the strong impression that they were more involved in the styling of the building: "the weight of the arch over the gate is like a feather held in balance by...etc etc" than being hunched over floor plans.
In other words, architects, if they're successful, move from purely technical to artistic/aesthetic.