Reassessing Architectural Expertise

Architectural practice and architectural academia are always underselling architectural expertise – working long hours for insufficient compensation, looking to the social or natural sciences for external validation of our methods and modes of thought, denigrating our own educational models just as other disciplines are eager to adopt them, and more. In order to secure the efficacy of our discipline for the 21^st century – and for our students – what is needed is a critical recuperation of practices internal to our discipline that might prove resilient, important, and effective in our changing cultural and political contexts and to our colleagues across disciplines. We need to reassess our strengths and then lead with them. We need to make change instead of bending to it.