I'm sorry to throw water on the embers of one's passion, but Pleaaaaase!
Yet another group/manifesto/vision quest trying to give architects a protected/special place in the world. If a doctor says 'take this pill' to fix your whatever, you say 'yes Doctor, you're the professional.' If an architect (specialist in human and environmental interaction) says,' put your sofa in that corner as I'm the expert in this kind of thing,' no doubt you'll say I would rather have it in the other corner. Same goes for kitchen design, the size of your lecture hall, the color of your cladding, and the shape of your roof.
Everyone is an architect, by this definition. So let the AIA stay with it's mission of ensuring that if we spend 7 years in training for this glorious yet amorphous role, we get paid the most of everyone. And that nobody else gets to call themselves 'architect' as flimsy as that term seems to be. And carve out extra places for our trained abilities rather than miss them (such as Design Thinking and allowing the public to think that LEED is a better qualification than AIA).
Rant over.
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John Onken Intl. Assoc. AIA
Director
John Onken Architects Limited
Menlo Park CA