The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.