In today’s ever-changing world, there is no profession that remained the same in terms of actions, tools and implementation. In that sense, architectural profession is not an exception.
The globalization capturing the world leveled the national features. The world became another. Informational technologies have changed both the character of the work, and life pattern. The requirements for the organization of living space are changing as well. New generation’s computer programs cease to serve only as a tool. They influence the creativity of designed thinking, and expand its range. In regards of architecture, the main theme becomes its communicativeness – the search of interrelations’ balance, i.e. between technological – ecological, public – private, and global and local.
The architectural profession in the future, regardless of the technological development and the tools used, is held by man’s creativity. Through various centuries and epochs, the discovery of new tools or new building materials would not have shaped the architectural movements, if not for the brightest minds that stood behind them.
In that sense, rephrasing the previous statement, the architecture of the future, is in exploiting the best means available to come up with a new idea. If you do not have such an idea, then nothing will help, neither the latest version of AutoCAD, 3dsudio Max nor the best computer hardware in the world.
In addition to creativity and imagination, an architect should be able to track the various changes in the society and its tendencies, as most architectural movements are born within these changes. Responsiveness is a critical quality that an architect of the future should have.
In light of the aforementioned, I think that I am capable of taking the role that the architectural profession is offering. As a person interested in the surroundings and the way they were constructed, I see my role in finding a way to improve them and enhance their aesthetic features and beneficial capabilities. I believe that the building in addition to being ecological, comfortable, and reliable, it also should bear a certain visual load that pleases the eyes and could be distinguished at the same time.
I believe that the perspectives of the development of architectural profession are strongly connected with the human factor. Today there is a tendency to minimize the human factor in various professions, where the most of the job is done by computers and the people are given the roles of controllers.
However, this cannot be applied to architecture. This statement is connected with the dual nature of architecture, where besides the hardware and the technology of building production, the architectural shaping is determined by humanitarian, aesthetic, artistic, intuitive and many other factors which is no computer program is capable of considering.
Undoubtedly, in the near future computer technologies will begin to play a bigger role in any sphere of human activity, and the architecture is not an exception. However they hardly can take a place of creative person. Thus, because of the position given in architectural profession to creativity, regardless of technological development, I choose to be an architect.
Works Cited
“Becoming an Architect.” Architecture.Com. 2008. Web.