The recession decimated the architecture profession, with firms closing or laying off large numbers of employees, architects left jobless for months or years, and many leaving the profession entirely. But a survey recently conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction (Record’s parent company) came to the counterintuitive conclusion that some U.S. firms expect a shortage of qualified designers to meet their workloads by 2014. — archrecord.construction.com
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Perhaps this is a light at the end of the tunnel for those who "toughed it out" through the lean years.
What? Are they anticipating a large number of architects starving to death in the next two years? Otherwise, I'm not seeing it.
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Oh please, I got a good laugh out of that one.
A shortage? Of qualified architects? Of architects willing to learn and elevate themselves to become "qualified" quickly? Is this trying to say that the architecture profession will have a 0% unemployment rate? Can someone educate me here?
mcgraw hill has joined hands with the papacy and the republican party in basking in the warm glow of magical thinking... having axed the editorial staff of record, they've found that reporting ABOUT architecture is more cost-effective than actually informing us about buildings, as they once did: no pics or photographers or layout issues, or silly worries about the quality of the projects presented, just happy talk: the fox network for what's left of the profession.
If someone has been out of work for five years Can he go back to the architecture field?.
"shortage of talented and experienced people willing to work for pennies."
I agree with the headline but not the content. There will absolutely be a shortage of experienced architects in the coming years as the economy recovers. Unfortunately that is the extent of the good news.
The bad news is that these are not jobs that are available to recent graduates or to those that have left the workforce. What we will be missing are project architects and project managers - the folks that perform the skilled rolls that cannot be assumed by contractors. Further, there is no way to conjure these people except to hope for a period of sustained growth that will allow a young cohort to grow within the field without one of the economic meteor strikes that have left so many holes in the profession...
(This article was posted 15 months ago)
And 15 months ago...they were completely wrong.
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