Missing Something?

A post via anArchitecture... made me think a bit about our fair profession and it's place in the grand scheme of the world. Via the site and post 'The Architectural Practice, Part I' - this graphic:


:: image via anArchitecture

And the text: "Architectural practices are a project based businesses: Changing teams create unique, tailor-made products or services (e.g. a building). A project is characterized by a network of different groups or companies (sometimes referred as 'stakeholders') like clients, designers, model makers, engineers, etc - temporary working together. Although people change from project to project their collaboration is based on trust. ... Consequently, architectural practice's success is based on past achievement: their project portfolio and their (business) network."

Obviously you see where my rant is going... missing a stakeholder at this particular table? Yes, landscape architecture can still be marginalized... but an interesting discussion - and some parsing (i.e. splitting hairs between stakeholders and participants).... check out round two of this on anArchitecture as well in 'The Architectural Practice, Part II'... which has a laundry list of participants... oh, but landscape architect has been switched with landscape designer... ah, so close... rant continues...

A good parallel discussion on Land8Lounge revisits the perennial topic of 'Who are we?' and more aptly 'Why can't we be called something other than Landscape Architect(ure)?'... is worth checking out as well. Lively discussion all around :)