[Vince Ferrer]

If I were to return to school, architecture would be one of the things I would want to study. The employment rate in architecture is due to the housing crash here, but it is having a Renaissance in many countries. This would actually be an exiting time to be an architect. There are new ways of building, new materials, and the money to build them. (somewhere else)

30 story building built in 15 days.

[bigbob]

The housing slump is only one factor. Less than 5% of buidings today are designed by architects, and technology is making it extremely easy to apply design automation and CAD techniques to minimize the work required by an actual architect and thus his fees. An adjacent field that is using these tools and achieving more success is that of Design-Build Contractors.

As an architect friend says, anyone going into architecture today had better have a “Plan B”.