--- title: One architect on one project guarantees a brilliant building description: Dedicating a single architect to one project ensures design consistency and coherence, but creates an organizational bottleneck. The trade-off between... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-architect-on-one-project-guarantees-a-brilliant-building-kbwnizphi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One architect on one project guarantees a brilliant building | daily.dev og:description: Dedicating a single architect to one project ensures design consistency and coherence, but creates an organizational bottleneck. The trade-off between... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-architect-on-one-project-guarantees-a-brilliant-building-kbwnizphi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KbwNiZPHI.png og:image:alt: One architect on one project guarantees a brilliant building og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # One architect on one project guarantees a brilliant building **[Sachchidanand Chitnis](https://daily.dev/sources/1ehzrm1k8rjvlbjpwrfp6)** · [@sachchidanand](https://daily.dev/sachchidanand) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dedicating a single architect to one project ensures design consistency and coherence, but creates an organizational bottleneck. The trade-off between architectural quality and team scalability is explored, drawing a parallel to building architecture where one architect per project yields brilliance but limits throughput. ## Content _Locking our architect on a single project guarantees both unmatched design consistency and an organizational bottleneck waiting to happen._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [If Architectures Could Talk, They’d Quote Your Boss](https://daily.dev/posts/if-architectures-could-talk-they-d-quote-your-boss-qjk70xvpp) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Pragmatic Architecture: Finding Your Architectural Compass](https://daily.dev/posts/pragmatic-architecture-finding-your-architectural-compass-5hqapopaq) · iO tech\_hub · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Documents: The architect’s programming language](https://daily.dev/posts/documents-the-architect-s-programming-language-dww5rsobm) · Stack Overflow Blog · 133 upvotes · 3 comments - [Bring back opinionated architecture](https://daily.dev/posts/bring-back-opinionated-architecture-amhmnkpbc) · Frederick's delirious rantings · 38 upvotes · 2 comments - [Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. 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