In My Opinion: the role of the architect nowadays

“Architecture connects us to daily life, clarifies our relationship with one another and to the realities of place and time. We should do the opposite – obscure and isolate – only out of neglect or indifference or error. Among other things, architecture is about fit, revelation, and prediction. It should fit with what is there and what transpires, and it should reveal what is there and how events change. And the fit and revelation are not just now, at the start of design, but over time, in the future; thus prediction.”
— Joseph Esherick, FAIA –
Architecture is no longer defined by a set of rules, regulations, or styles. Architecture is whatever we, citizens, builders and architects, wish to make of it but, we can start from the beginning about the Architectural science.
Observation, discussion and collaboration with people leads to recognition of the parameters as social and private place, historical facts, everyday routine and their expectations of the future. Things that have a great effect, in a particularly enchanting way on their behaviors.
The point is that in recent years we have become more and more estranged from them. Those for whom we are supposed to provide the optimal product of our knowledge. We are more obsessed about the project and not about the people involved in it. We find ourselves behind the desks improving our digital design skills, becoming more and more competitive as there is already congested labor market, which dictates the rules and also the abilities that an architect must obtain. Removing the essence of thinking that used to be humanitarian, taking it to a management of space as an excel sheet. An superficiality, which is not to be underestimated as it is a leading power force.
To find again the balance we need to go out, discuss, research and help to improve our city in co-action with people. Collaboration of all the human sources. And then maybe we can start to predict a healthier future. The need to find our role in these difficult times (economical and cultural) to work for the city and to encourage every one to contribute to the improvement. We need to go back to the beginning but with the knowledge of today and maybe we can see the architecture again as humanitarian science.
As we continue to grow and change so does our architecture. With the progression of each year, each decade, each century, our identity, our defining characteristics change alongside them. Life is not a fixed, monotonous endeavor. It is something that molds anew with the inclusion of each new generation. Our architecture must act in the same way as the needs of the surrounding environment do./...