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The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice
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Written by The American Institute of Architects, this is the definitive textbook on practice issues written specifically for architecture students. Specifically written for emerging architects, this is the first unabbreviated guide specifically for architecture students about to begin their careers. It is required reading in a professional practice course that architecture students must take within their final two years of school.
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| Title of eBook: The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice | |
| Release Date: 09-26-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice
Chapter One
Professional Life
1.1 Architecture as a Profession
Dana Cuff, Ph.D.
Architecture is in the family of vocations called professions, all of which share certain qualities and collectively occupy a special position in society. Architects' status as professionals provides them with an underlying structure for their everyday activities.
To be a professional means many things today. One can be a professional athlete, student, or electrician. Each of these occupations uses the term in ways distinct from what we mean by the professional who is a doctor, lawyer, or architect.
Typically, we distinguish professionals who do certain work for a living from amateurs who work without compensation. The term amateur connotes a dabbler, or someone having less training and expertise than a professional.
We also differentiate between professions and other occupations. Expertise, training, and skill help define those vocations that "profess" to have a specialized territory of knowledge for practice. While many occupations require expertise, training, and skill, professions are based specifically on fields of higher learning. Such learning takes place primarily in institutions of higher education rather than in vocational schools or on the job. Universities introduce prospective professionals to the body of theory or knowledge in their field. Later, this introduction is augmented by some form of internship in which practical skills and techniques are mastered.
A high level of education is expected of professionals because their judgments benefit-or, if incompetently exercise
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