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Refreshing to hear somebody say that there is still a place for the generalist architect. A generalist doesn't have to mean a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none. A generalist can be a well-educated and sagacious professional.

It seems many are far too willing to accept that architects now need to become specialists to survive. This adopted attitude allows others to take up the roles that architects no longer wish to do, or are no longer educated to do.

Of course architects will never know it all because legislation tends to change before the ink has dried, but they should at least attempt to become polymaths as having all of your eggs in one basket never seems like a good idea to me.