>>11399439>>280532784Architecture is a ponzi scheme. The "profession" didn't exist until the last century.
>Professionals engaged in the design and supervision of construction projects prior to the late 19th century were not necessarily trained in a separate architecture program in an academic setting. Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artistsCredentialism and excess regulation has convinced the public that we need qualified graduates. Universities and practicing architects protect their positions by supporting this. Becoming a registered architect is expensive, extremely time consuming, the profession does not pay well, and universities use it as an opportunity to push post-modernism. Experimental architecture has become the norm because it is cheaper and requires less consideration, ie. "okay here is another glass and concrete box". Coorporations are funding most of the big projects and they couldn't give a damn about aesthetics or human sensibility - however this is where the money is. And so practicing architects, through educational indoctrination, need for money, and artificially protected institutional inertia, sacrifice the interests of the general public and future generations.
Pic is of Christopher Wren, architect of St. Pauls in London
>One of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist>In Wren's age, the profession of architect as understood today did not exist. Since the early years of the 17th century it was not unusual for well-educated young men (virtuosi) to take up architecture as a gentlemanly activity, a pursuit widely accepted as a branch of applied mathematics 
