Build it and they will come

The expertise of a professional architect can ensure the realisation of your dream job, writes Kya deLongchamps.

Why engage an architect? All over the country there are building and renovating projects going ahead without the aid of an architect.

Useful plan books heave with standardised designs to coax a house out of the ground. Many plans will bear the fingerprints of an architect and make it through planning. Why bother employing an architect at all?