paper architect
someone whose work is purely theoretical, having never come to fruition, or has never been exemplified by anything in the real world.
“he was a tenured professor of architecture—a position b-ttressed by his renown as a ‘paper architect.’
that is to say, he was an esteemed architect whose reputation rested on his designs, rather than on the buildings constructed from them.”
—asterios polyp, by david mazzucch-lli
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