Petrus Petri practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Petrus Petri as architect.
Petrus Petri was born in 1220.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Petrus Petri died in 1291, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
