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Architecture jobs are in rapid decline.
Jobs for architects probably won'
t completely disappear. There will always be a need for architects, just not so many.
The vast majority of the annual 5,
000+ graduates from US architectural colleges cannot possibly find a job in architecture.
Award winning veteran architects can't even find a job. There aren't enough projects to go around.
An architectural firm only needs one licensed architect to stamp the documents. All the other jobs required for an architectural project can be done by temp workers or outsourced via the internet to countries where an architect earns about $13,000 a year and a draftsperson earns about $10 a day.
This dismal state of the architecture profession was predicted 25 years ago by sociologist and honorary
AIA member
Robert Gutman in his book "Architectural
Practice: A
Critical View."
Gutman wrote that architecture was the poor profession. Unlike law and medicine which can largely create their own market, architecture is dependent on a market completely driven by outside forces. Like no other profession, architecture is dependent on loans, sometimes massive loans. Usually a project can't begin until somebody borrows money. Because of this dependence, architecture is among the first to feel the pinch when the economy falters.
Much of what shaped the modern architecture profession was the easy money and endless projects after
World War II through the go-go days of the
1990's and early
2000's. But even in these times the economy cycled through ups and downs. Architecture felt every bump. The recession of the early 1990's culled a majority of mid-level architects out of the profession. They were replaced by entry level architects who reached mid-career in time to be driven from the profession with the crash of
2008. The slaughter continues.
Gutman could not have anticipated the impact a rapidly shrinking global economy would have on architecture. Neither could Gutman have imagined how the internet would eradicate so many architecture jobs.
Entry and mid-levels architecture jobs are now easily outsourced to countries where the work can be done for a fraction of the cost of in-house employees.
Architecture, as we know it, or thought we knew it, is a dinosaur. Economists around the world are warning of a coming economic disaster. Loans are tighter now than ever and very few projects are getting funded. This probably will not change for a long time, if ever.
It's not fair and it's not fun, but it is what it is. To pretend otherwise is delusional.
You can continue to search for an architecture job and hope someone will save you, or you can calmly assess the situation and realize jobs are drying up everywhere, not just architecture jobs.
Doctors and lawyers are getting outsourced too. Architecture jobs may be heading the way of the dodo.
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