Making Architects

Abstract

Architecture has always existed, long before architects. Humans have always attributed cultural, social, religious and personal values to the interventions they made to their surroundings, as soon as they started to modify it to suit their needs and tastes. Yet, architecture as a practice is incredibly fragile, and in these fast- paced times of pseudo-science and fake news, when science itself is doubted, the practitioners of architecture run the risks, in some places more than others, to be cast aside. The major causes of this crisis are cultural, social and economic, so they operate at a scale well above the possibility of intervention by the profession itself or its ruling bodies and institutions. Yet, this situation still calls for a reassessment of the way we educate, regulate and manage our profession.