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 ArchitectureThe report also discusses the education of craftsmen and skilled workers and presentfurther illustrations:A bricklayer lays bricks. A carpenter does carpentry. A black smith forges. But who’s going to work with……Figure 1-4: Revolution within bricklayingByggerapporten (Eriksen and Thykir 1969 p. 95) explains a recent development atthat time: “The resistance of the handicraft organizations against new materials andnew techniques and organization has – quite against the intention – stronglysupported industrialization and new methods. In this context especially the montageconstruction with manufactured components to be mounted at the building site by aminimum of working force has to be emphasized.” 8To the right a small illustration from the reportshows the two kinds of manual working force thatcould be noticed at the building site in 1969 andstill can be found there: The handicraft trained andthe not handicraft trained; the latter one now oftenwith a certain minor theoretical specialist training.Figure 1-5: Two kinds of workersThere are still fewer of the real handicraft trained professionals left in the industryand this presents a problem as to the challenge of refurbishing and especially therestoration of valuable old buildings. In the UK the National Heritage TrainingGroup (NHTG) was established to address this problem (Graham, Linford andLobban 2007), and in Denmark a special centre for old handicrafts was established inorder to keep and maintain the building heritage. Therefore, one could claim that thetraditional handicrafts still exist and are in use.8 Translated from Danish by the author47