Industrialize the Architectural Profession at Last to Revitalize It and Make It up to the Urgent Needs of Our Era

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijaaa.20220803.14" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijaaa.20220803.14</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.ijaaa.20220803.14" target="_blank" >10.11648/j.ijaaa.20220803.14</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Industrialize the Architectural Profession at Last to Revitalize It and Make It up to the Urgent Needs of Our Era

Original language description

The architectural profession operates in an extremely competitive environment today - and more and more evidence arises showing it cannot cope. The consequence is socio-economic problems for architects, the devastation of the branch, and substandard performance that affects the protected interests of individuals and the public interest, including urgent goals of sustainable development efforts. Obviously, any of the consequences is worth to eliminate; to turn the attention to the problems and contribute to launching the needed changes is the objective of the paper. Putting the realia of topic area into the industrialization´s theory framework, the paper puts the hypothesis that a persistence of the architectural profession in pre-industrial, medieval-guild paradigm is the cause. Further, the explanations of particular, today-frequented cases of the counter-productivity and, in today's social and economic conditions, the unsustainability of the processes and acts by which the profession is practiced that are based on Toynbee's theory discuss, test, and verify the hypothesis. Virtual public space and, in particular, virtual reality environments and technologies are bringing the architectural profession to the brink of a revolution. It promises to optimize the processes of architectural design and the planning of the building that makes architecture material and to upgrade the level of quality of the results achieved. Is the profession ready for such a revolution; is it ripe for it? Is it coping with the current situation, which is different from the conditions and environment in which the architect was the sovereign creator of the summum templum architecturae? Can it use the technological revolution to overcome the long-standing problems and establish a new professional paradigm that renders necessary for the regeneration of the profession, for its performance in terms of securing the protected interests of individuals and the public interest, and for promoting the sustainability of life on Earth? Finally, the paper proposes a positive conclusion – conditioned by industrializing the profession at last; as the prerequisite and the path, the paper suggests mastering the virtual reality environments by the architectural profession and utilization of its technologogies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60402 - Architectural design

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Architecture, Arts and Applications

ISSN

2472-1107

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

121-129

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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