Opinion

Architects have strangled themselves

By 2022-04-11T06:06:00

Eleanor Jolliffe

We have an opportunity to re-stitch some of the professional fabric we have so determinedly unravelled and rise to the challenges of the 2020s, writes Eleanor Jolliffe

The last couple of centuries of our profession have been marked by a fear of losing “territory”; fear of diversity of practice; fear that if we hold our professional definition loosely we shall lose it altogether. 

This pursuit of purity and restriction of definition of what an architect is does not make for a glorious history. However, now there is an opportunity to re-stitch some of the professional fabric we have so determinedly unravelled.

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