Niels Barrett PhD.pdf - OpenAIR @ RGU - Robert Gordon University

The rise of a Profession within a ProfessionLiterature reviewThe Development of the Architectural Technology Discipline within the Profession of Architecturestill new materials are used for new desired looks. Therefore, a kind of overallexpertise in realising problems and difficulties is required from the professional incharge of the design. Regarding chemical and physical specialised knowledge,Vadstrup (2005) states that such knowledge providing an insight on electrochemicalseries within metals and on chemical reactions within minerals was a part of theexperience based handicraft knowledge of how to do. One can conclude that today’srequirement must be a high degree of basic understanding of the same factorscombined with a high level of awareness to enable the professional to designsomething new which performs quite as good as the old solutions.The final area mentioned by Vadstrup was special professional knowledge. By thishe means that the experience of the professional craftsman was especially deepbecause he was dealing with a narrow area of specialisation that far exceeded baretheoretical knowledge. It seems obvious here that the industry faces a seriousproblem for the new distribution of responsibility within the industry. How can anAT professional or anyone else replace the qualities of this factor in the newstructures to be designed? After all, much of the depth in such knowledge may ariseor develop through experience and practical training. Fully in line with this Jensen(1921) describes the cooperation he as an architect had had with a blacksmith aboutsome wrought iron work for a well: “We, who compose work, which we only givedrawings on paper for, because it is not our profession to manage the execution inthe material, we are obliged to do our part of the work in a way that it can inspirethe craftsman to do his work as an art. The one who creates the composition, has thefull responsibility for the general architectonic and artistic effect through thesurveying of the execution along with the balancing of all details, but the craftsman,who carry out the work in the material need as much freedom as possible to give theperformance a personal artistic character. – Such a character has Hans Rasmussenmanaged to give the wrought iron work of the well. This is not only in the technicalrespect so well done that at the assembly of the different parts a single spot could bepointed out where a minor error could be noticed. The well is in general so well donethat there can barely be found a smith in the world who could have carried out this39