The Architect's Role In The Construction Industry

As the city developed, many architects have lamented the lack of power they have. The society may have shaped architect as a pure stylist of buildings. Thus, architects have become nothing more than mere stylists, their role is to make building look good.

Architect’s traditional roles within the building industry is the client’s advisor. However, it has gradually diminished to the rise of project management consultants. The ambiguity in the mind of the public community had reshaped the role of architects, who were increasingly seems as mere stylist – an artistic accompaniment to the real craft of the building that was carried out by the builders and engineers.

When the aspiration pushes beyond simple utility of building to architecture,

It has become a pure geometrical expression, reflecting what the architect’s will at that moment. It carries connotation of being arbitrary and contrived. The danger of artistic thinking will delude architect into expression of their thinking through art and style. Whereby they have to account for the needs of human habitat. If their art includes metaphors of sustainability, then it must be sustainable; if it includes iconic expressions of a great city, then the city in question must be great indeed; and so on.1 However, it’s often we left the reality behind it and leadings to deluded thinking.

Peter Morrison said: “I believe that the architect of the future will be much more than merely a stylist, the architect of the future must regain the status of master builder — a position that has been diminished in recent years by the media- created phenomenon of the starchitect.”

Architecture is political but is somewhat the political outlook of the client who has the money and is hiring the architect. The architect, who works for the client, a reflection of the views of the client. Architecture should serve the people but because the client’s control, architects have to decide whether to serve the client or the

“The city is never complete; it has a beginning but it has no end. It’s a work in process always waiting for new scenes to be added and new characters to move in.”Creating design to re-connect the built environment with nature through specific strategies and attempts to incorporate the environmental forces of the site. The concept emerged from the desire to provide improvement to create a healthy sustainable environments and addressing multifunctional programs and needs. Green building recently has become a trend where it is aesthetically beautify with greens in the architectural design. It may have become a new concept, but the building using this idea should consider the symbiotic relationship in the environment.
Architect’s responsibility is to seize every unique opportunity to influence ethical and socially responsible development in the world, to plan and design sustainable creating a healthy built environment while addressing multifunctional building programs and needs to the existing environment. The figure below shows the relationship between the old decision model of architecture and the new trend of architecture. It has adapted the new ecology green idea and consider human health and