Will the architecture profession still exist in 40 years’ time?

Can the architect’s role be done by someone else?

Source: John McCann/ RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Yes it will be flourishing, asserts RIBA president Ruth Reed, while Austin Williams argues that the job is becoming one that can be done by any technocrat

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