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Bravo to all who contributed in the last few days. Here is a second quote from one of Group 7's correspondents. I think it confuses "architect" with "designer". We are not members of AID. Architects are designers who know about human environments, yes, no? Please share your thoughts here.
"I would be very hesitant about calling an architect an "expert" on the relationship between humans and the built environment. Such a definition limits who we are as a profession and moves us further from our role as social, environmental, community, and urban innovators. Many of us focus on such small, but critical niches of design that to call ourselves experts on human-built environment relationship is far from the reality and would only serve to further mislead the general public."
James Erickson
Mike Mense FAIA
Anchorage AK
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