Dear Mark,
At 10:14 3/9/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Tano Cabanyes wrote:
>
>> >>Enough of previous generations of architects and designers selling out
>> >>to developers at low fees. It's time a new generation of architects
>> >>brought back beauty, art, needs-responsiveness, and appropriate fees to
>> >>the industry. Let's reclaim our heritage.
>
>> Sure.
>>
>> Let's do it right.
>
>Sounds good to me, especially as it appears AIA is in danger of losing its role
> as
>official organ of the profession: note the squabble 'twixt it and NCARB (so
well
>documented by P/A prior to its assassination), its low membership amongs RAs
> (approx.
>60%, right?), its inability to nurture student participation (AIAS, while at
> _some_
>chapters strong and organized, is a joke at the national level, going so far as
> to
>declare its independence of AIA by considering a name change), and its
> outrageous
>dues structure. Its pretty bad when entire firms elect not to renew its
> membership.
>
>On the other hand, such an organization would need to proceed carefully to
avoid
> what
>happened to Louis Sullivan and his Architectural League of America, which he
> himself
>helped torpedo by way of his overly strident denunciation of AIA.
>
>Of course, modern communications can do much to bring a similar dialogue out
> into the
>public forum---is it even possible for the general public to understand just
> what it
>is that architects do?
>
>God, I hope so. If only we can find the right way to explain it...
>
>Mark
>
>
Should the question then be:
How will architects be working in the coming times given the effect of
modern communications and how can we as designers anticipate that trend by
setting up appropriate communications forums that will pave the way for a
decentralized and professional interaction between the online architects and
their future clients. ?
If so, let us try to define collaborativelly a set of functional
specifications for such forums.
Tano Cabanyes
Architect
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