My answer in simple, an Architect should be a potential GOOD coder; this implies that he was a good coder and can sit down when necessary and piss some nice cod

My answer in simple, an Architect should be a potential GOOD coder; this implies that he was a good coder and can sit down when necessary and piss some nice code. I have been in the business long enough to know that an architect with no solid coding experience generally design either a weak system or a fancy disastrous system.