Well, if you believe in the arguments of the critics,
it seems that the architectural profession is either dead or is irrelevant now.
I don’t understand a thing, why is that critics are always against the
innovations or radical ideas. Be it the critics of any industry, they all have
the issues with experimentation and the
adoption of new ideas and technologies. Coming in the context of the
architectural industry, according to the
conventional thinking patterns an architect’s work is only limited to
drawings. How many of you support this
notion. As far as I believe an architect has more to do with conceptualizing
the overall architectural design of the building.
It is true that before the invention and implementation
of CAD technology in the AEC industry, the architects had to generate the
architectural drawings manually with the assistance of pencil and paper. But
that doesn’t mean that the process of developing the drawings shouldn’t be
reformed.
The application of CAD drafting services in the
architectural projects has only eased the manner in which the drawings are
generated, it doesn’t mean that an architect’s work is over now. It is still
the architect who conceptualize and design the entire architecture of the
building as per the requirements of the owners.
The most important thing that needs to be noticed is
that, even though the drafting is done with the assistance of AutoCAD, the
drafters or the CAD technicians still work on the instructions given by the
architects. Still, what needs to be drawn and how it should be drawn depends
upon the design developed by the architect. So how can we say that the
architectural profession is no more
relevant.
I firmly believe that the implementation of the
latest technological inventions in the building
process is adding up to the productivity of the
industry. The adoption of building information modeling and the CAD technology
by the architects and the engineers have helped in transforming the construction methods. All
the pre-construction architectural Services
Structural Services and MEP drafting services are executed with the support
of CAD technology, but that doesn’t mean that architects and engineers are no
more required.
I think it’s high time we start ignoring what
critics say.
