Not many buildings would stand upright if what you said was true. An architect absolutely needs to be on top of the technical implementation of both ventilatio

Not many buildings would stand upright if what you said was true. An architect absolutely needs to be on top of the technical implementation of both ventilation, fire systems and plumbing. They won't be the ones who installs them those things are taken into consideration when the plans come together. If you think an architect only dreams up what it should look like and then leave the project you are mistaken. With that said, I think a building architect is a terrible metaphor for what's done in software engineering for plenty of other reasons. And yes, you absolutely need to have intimate details of how the coherency protocol works if you are the software architect of a clustered system, just to take an example. In the opposite direction lies disaster (which I've seen first hand).