... the usual architect with no sense of practicality you might assume ....
Like the one who designed buildings for a housing co-op in Reading with stairwells lit by windows that didn't open, which could only be accessed from the outside by putting up complicated & expensive scaffolding to get over roofs, & were shielded from rain so didn't even get a good rinse every now & then?
Amazing how quickly they went black.
He also specified cheap-looking but remarkably expensive plastic door handles which broke very easily indeed. I was told it was all to do with the aesthetics of functionality . . . . Apparently it doesn't matter if it works, as long as it looks vaguely industrial.