The ten best fictional architects

For the Observer, Rowan Moore came up with a list of the ten best fictional architects. One character on the list:
Otto Silenus, Decline and Fall

Otto Silenus, in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, is a modernist fanatic. “The problem of architecture,” he says, “is the elimination of the human element from the consideration of form… I do not think it is possible for domestic architecture to be