The practical architect

When I have tried to define the scope of this profession, far m beyond the obvious role of designer and construction manager that falls to him, I have always stated that an Architect is an expert in transforming buildings, from any condition and point of view. Not only transformer of urban land into a usable building, but also transformer of rustic land into developable land or urban, 'parcelling' and 'reparcelling', rehabilitator and conservative, renovator of use,