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Architecture as a Profession

Carlo believes there will be inexhautible opportunities for architecture. The great changes have in fact revealed that the physical environment has profoundly deteriorated. Potentially, therefore, architects have a brilliant future as almost everything needs to be redesigned. They should look at cities in a fresh context--that of the territory as a whole--so as to understand how to recover the historic centers and how to regenerate suburbs, outskirts, and districts: all different ways of being of the contemporary town, the one built by the three or four last generations. Sometimes the repairs will have to be performed surgically but more often with light and subtle means (De Carlo 74-77).

According to De Carlo, architects need to stop isolating themselves from human endeavors. This isolation began, as a natural phenomenon, when people began to consider economic systems, which led to a separation of human activities and specialization--hence the rise of experts. Architects, as specialists, have had great powers over a number of people. However, this had led to abuses--the deliberate ignorance of the character of places, the abstract interpretation of human and natural processes, the habit of taking the side of the powerful leaving the weak to their fate; and the worst abuse of all, that of making architecture for the sake of architecture. Post-modernism, while lacking depth and often in functional purpose, came about because the world is becoming multicolored, multiracial, multicultural, and languages, such as architecture are no longer able to

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