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    Posted 12-19-2011 12:31 PM


    Your reference explanation appears to be accurate , however I think the point is that it's very annoying when one conducts a web search or future job search and the "majority " of result refer to IT positions, not Architecture as we are trained.I can recall recent
    State Board objections to the term " Intern Architect" before it became acceptable, One can bet, if the computer industry had adopted the term IT Physician, or IT
    Attorney , even the State Attorney Generals would have acted forcibly and quickly and those terms would never be allowed,--even now The Physician or Legal State Boards would take action.
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    1. RE:ARCHITECT
    From: Rudolph Beuc
    To: Small Project Practitioners
    Posted: 12/16/2011 10:30:00 AM
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    Not this subject again.........

    Look,the designation has been in use by the computer industry since the early 1960's. The earliest reference I've come across is from the book "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" by Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson and John H. Palmer.

    The phrase Computer Architecture appears to have been coined by Fred Brooks, an engineer for IBM. He was managing the development of a new mainframe product line, and was looking for a way to adequately describe the complexities of designing the human/machine/software/circuitry interface. From the book....

    "The principal initial objective of Brook's design department was to establish an NPL (New Product Line) "Architecture", a word he had recognized during his 1959-1960 sojourn in Research as one that might be useful for distinguishing overt (user-related) aspects of a computer's design from the inescapable welter of design detail. When he joined DSD in 1960, he sharpened the term and used it to characterize aspects of his work with Blaauw on the 800 series. Later, before working on NPL., he defined the term as follows:

    " Computer architecture, like other architecture, is the art of determining the needs of the user of a structure and then designing to meet those needs as effectively as possible within economic and technological constraints. Architecture must include engineering considerations, so that the design will be economical and feasible; but the emphasis in architecture is upon the needs of the user, whereas in engineering the emphasis is upon the needs of the fabricator." "

    Like it or not, the use of the term architect or architecture is well entrenched in another industry. The AIA or any state board in not likely to completely wrest it back. If it is to be a fully restricted/protected title, it therefore needs to be done so in a way that recognizes an attachment with the construction industry.

    Perhaps Building Architect, Architector ( a nod to the Realitors...), Building Designers?.........

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    Rudy Beuc III AIA
    Architect
    R. Beuc Architects
    Saint Louis MO
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  • 2.  RE:ARCHITECT

    Posted 12-21-2011 10:18 AM
    I recall an example I heard many years ago, that shows the unintentional respect associated with the title "Architect."

    How many times do you see the phrase: "Architect of a successful campaign.."?  It is with the highest regard (in the media, for what that's worth) that we refer to "the architect of the financial recovery," or "the architect of the Marshall Plan."   

    What do other professions get?  "it became obvious during the audit that the books had been doctored,"  "he doctored her drink in order to..."  As for lawyers...no comment needed. 

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    Steven Rieck
    Architect
    Hoch Associates
    Fort Wayne IN
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