Requiring stamps on everthing that needs a permit will certainly increase the amount of work that will shuffle its way over to architects. However, at the risk of sounding elitist, most of that type of work is nothing that I would want to be involved in.
A great deal of my work comes from people who have net worths that dwarf my own. There is some question of value added by hiring an architect for everyone, but with a shrinking middle class, the upper crust are the only ones that can afford to hire an architect whether they get any value out of it or not.
You can package up an architect's value any way conceivable, but I think that the issue of architecture being a dying profession is directly tied to the economic divisions in this country. Fewer people are controlling more of the wealth. That doesn't translate into more people being able to build.
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Ken Brogno AIA
Architect
AIA, LEED AP
San Francisco CA
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