In contrast, the architect's diet today is so interesting and varied, that to consider changing disciplines is almost unthinkable. An architect at that time would probably have spent most of his time designing private houses or perhaps religious buildings, and a sideways look then, at all the developing new technology, might have seemed rather seductive.
This must have been an incredibly exciting time for anyone interested in design, for as a whole technology for infrastructure and transportation started to emerge, there arose with it a demand for new buildings and structure types. No civil project team today is complete without an architect on board, and there is a growing recognition of the architect's contribution, particularly in a project's early stages, when concepts are in development.Įngineering as a separate, 'stand-alone' discipline began to break away from architecture/building at the end of the eighteenth century, once the Industrial Revolution had got up some steam. Until recently the domains of the civil engineer and the architect had rarely coincided but increasingly, nowadays, infrastructure and bridge projects have required a cooperation between the two professions. If the architect just chooses the colour of the paint and the engineer taps out a few numbers on a calculator, who actually does the work?
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