2. Architect as a Lawyer…as a true leader for the Owner – Teach college students that the role of an architect is more akin to an attorney than a rock star. It is the true principle that the entire AIA contract doctrine is based on.

In England architects act more as representative to execute rules for the construction process, again, on behalf of the owner. Many architects have failed so badly in orchestrating residential construction from our ivory towers that contractors are now becoming the primary representative to the owners to protect the owners from irresponsible and egotistical architects. We have done this to ourselves by allowing architects though the system without a real understanding of the construction process and unwilling to work with others in that complicated process as equals. We need to change the imagery of what an Architect is.