I don't know what he actually saw through those glasses, but not the people he was talking to. So he was just an appearance, just a geographical expression, as a man. So maybe he was great. Something that nobody even thinks about. That is the answer.
People keep asking that very silly question.
I don't think even he would've said that he was an architect. He would've said that's not the point. But in those days he felt that he was on the main line and we architects were classicists and just fussed around with shapes, and our buildings weighed too much anyhow - as if weight made any difference. He'd say that wasn't a question of an interest. So when he went into his house he put an arch in.