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 Architecturefire resisting properties (Kjærgaard and Harboe 1982). From the end of the 1960s theold craft of carpentry has only been used for restoration of old protected buildings.Figure 1-2: Traditional wooden main stair and the stair that replaced itFigure 1-1 and 1-2 are taken from the third edition of a book by Jensen (1964). Theoriginal book (Jensen 1954) was meant to be used in the education of “masterbuilders” but the name of the education was changed 1964 to be“Bygningskonstruktør”, which title can best be translated to “ArchitecturalTechnologist”. Denmark still has a trade called carpentry, but it has very little to dowith the old handicraft of the same name. All materials are different and all tools aredifferent and the only tradition available is less than 20 years old due to the rapidchanges.Bricklayers are still working with facades of bricks, but instead of the facade being apart of the load bearing structure, making the weather screen, and being part of thethermal envelope and thus creating the inner wall surface as one solid result of theexercise of the old craftsmanship, it is now used in a thin layer for the purpose of theweather screen only. Instead of operating with many advanced bonds it has becomecommon to use the most simple and uncomplicated ones and the same can be said45