Architects Do Not Just Create Drawings of Clients Designs.
Architects are constantly analysing the current world, local, and individual, context to establish its problems, and fundamental principles.
Against this they identify what human needs, values, qualities, appreciations of beauty, cultures and societies will need to become.
From the conjunction of the two they identify what will be needed as solutions to future issues.
They add all this information to their own theory of the development of responses to human needs through history.
They are keepers of an immense repository of human responses to survival and evolution.
Architecture is therefore not a static functional art. It is a relative, evolving, emergent, algorithmic, scientific, investigation into suitable responses to universal contextual issues by the use of optimized materials and human abilities.
Architects are the ‘Master Builders’.
They are also the masters of contextual systems theory for the future.
There are not many Architects.
In Britain they make up 0.05% of the total population in 2015.
As individuals they seek precision in thought and discussion.
As groups they are internally competitive.
As companies they are influential on a global scale since they create the visible prestige forms for the governments of the world.
They are often unknown and often world famous.
They are celebrated by their professional bodies.
They are trained initially to examine everything through an aesthetic sensory response. Then they are trained to examine the situation, description or object in iterative, dispassionate layers until the principle nature is established and the form given a name.
The names of anything are all they talk about.
They use a clipped form of dialogue amongst each other acknowledging each other’s professional abilities and qualifications.
Amongst the public they are deliberately naive in order to engineer the correct response.
This allows both the untrained public response to be made clear and the trained professional discussion to progress and expand the knowledge of their functional art.
All faults are exposed and their causes identified through the application of Architecture in order to reach an optimized understanding and response solution under a name suited to the current language.
Irrational, emotional, chaotic, unjustified, styles of architectural though are exposed as weaknesses to the overall effect of any object. All errors are made public and discussed. All waste removed and recycled as experience.
There is no form of ‘small-talk’ or casual speech in architectural discussion.
Trivial forms of design, manufacture, materials, economics and language are not allowed to be created or voiced without comment.
Architects are trained and constantly educating themselves and each other in all of the current areas of knowledge.
They are open to all information from any source.
The classical nature of the Architect has evolved into a far more complex profession.
Architects once had to understand approximately 12 areas of knowledge. They currently must work with approximately 150 areas of knowledge.
Their knowledge informs their skill in debating their design methods with members of the public and other professionals. They learn by relentlessly seeking out knowledge, asking intrusive questions and by testing the responses against their own understanding and documented information.
They have total self-belief since they can provide proof to back up their knowledge.
They are solitary by nature and form casual acquaintances but never at the expense of their own beliefs, knowledge or future development.
They work intensively.
They develop their skills through concentration, focus, multi-tasking, multi-communication and evolutionary problem solving techniques.
They punctuate work by bouts of excessive sensory input and output.
They are driven by the achievement of a personal unique solution to a problem.
Ian K Whittaker
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16/06/2016
14/10/2020
617 words over 2 pages