Computers, Education and Architecture for the Lost Profession

Those who build are gradually, at the moment, subverting the traditional role of the architect. Architecture needs new ways of expressing itself. Architects need new ways of being architects. There are less and less jobs, and those there are are less and less to do with Architecture. In this essay, I am concerned to confront the question of what computers mean for education and professionalism (especially in architecture), and, thus, for us as architects and teachers of computing. The argument is centred in architecture, but its conclusions are, I believe, also more generally tenable