2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. The Trouble with Architecture
Author : Graeme Bristol
Published in: Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
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Its history—the problems of the profession have deep roots going back to the shift from the Gothic Master Builder to Alberti and the ‘Renaissance Man’.
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Professional education—it has been said that an architecture degree provides the graduate with the most well-rounded education possible. A myth? There is also a troubling chasm between the school training future architects and the profession which has to take them in.
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Globalization—between WTO and GATS, APEC negotiations on the trade in architectural services, and the newly proposed TPP agreement, there are a number of problems with architecture, tied as it is to culture, freely crossing borders to practice architecture anywhere in the world.