What will the architect enact tomorrow?

1- What is an architect in today’s society?
2- Define “innovative architect”
3- How should one practice architecture?
4- What are the architect’s responsibilities?
5- What or where is architecture’s laboratory?
6- How can architecture be taught today?

109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple and Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today and Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow

On the occasion of the farewell to Wiel Arets and the welcoming of Alejandro Zaera-Polo as dean, Berlage Institute organized an international symposium and this special edition of Hunch 6/7 on the question: “What will the architect enact tomorrow?” More than 100 international architects, theoreticians and critics were challenged to address this question. […]
In the introductory article Roemer van Toorn analyzes the positions contemporary architecture is taking, the issues it deals with or denies, and the positions it could take in the future.

Dunk’s invitation to us was to ask and answer those questions for ourelf … and maybe share them here on the blog? ;-)

posted by rimbaud
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:48:17 GMT