"Architecture is a hollowed-out profession with architects seemingly less vital than ever"

As architecture has evolved it has become detached from an understanding of construction and engineering that was once at the profession's core, writes Eleanor Jolliffe.There have always been architects. They, we, are a necessary, even vital, component to human society. Architects may not always have been called architects but for most of history there have been someones who "designed" shelter and guided its construction.
Paul Crosby and I have explored the last 3,000 years of the western histor