TAP WATER - the educational resource of our profession

Living in one world our outstanding task of the 21st century will be the redefinition of our architectural and electronic Babylon.

Not for the sake of one consumable style of allover-mainstream, but for the the sake of a desirable endeavor in between the different languages of todays` architects and their architecture:

Responsibility for a self-confident society, knowing its particular cultural, religious and natural environment in worldwide dependencies of ecology, economy and education. Architecture ought to be redesigned as a place of perceptible and physical communication, and its buildings to one of intelligent usage of resources.

Instead of converting to a submarine, which is self-contained and unaffected of environmental demands, only open to a small group of privileged with strictly controlled access-permissions, architecture should start rethinking its origins again, whose main task consisted in guiding people towards new havens of understanding - like the great sailor ships exactly have done.

Out of this necessity, the structures of practice need, on behalf of a changing global system definitely to be redefined, especially in respect to the management of international experience. Besides inevitable technical inventions for 'getting up behind your screen to work together' and reducing the complexity of software processes and usage, other aspects of practice should be developed as well - like improving the efficiency of Timezone-Collaborations (TC) and the integration of different generations.

Upcoming Global Offices of Generations (GOG) will be a guarantee of cultural cooperation and development. In order to achieve a reliable continuity, new Agencies of Architectural Education (AAE) have to be established for providing this dynamic system of architectural practice with statements from ancient history up to future demands. Within their networks of research and knowledge they will arrange a worldwide interactive interface between universities, technology companies, related fields, media, science and practice. The distribution and publication of external results of interdisciplinary studies which should be implemented in this discourse of open-source, will be another advantage for sustaining and expanding the basics of daily practice.

Formerly generalists should enrich their modular role and teamwork with additional specialists in a wide range from media-architecture, local and environmental planning, urbanism, towards an assistance in global structures and standards. Even finding solutions for approaching outer space settlements, represents key challenges far beyond the 21st century.

Out of these preconditions and circumstances a generally accepted revaluation of architectural practice requires indispensably individual considerations, which depend on their stated determination of present issues and future essentials. Whereas multiple components are not comprised by one singular entity anymore, but where integration of multiple disciplines needs to be reorganized into an advanced progress of resources for architects, customers, companies, technology, education and nature.

The first step of an action plan for a renewed architectural practice will now be a sheet of paper, a pencil, an contemplative atmosphere for forthcoming ideas and a presentiment of the personal educational origin, respectively:

Our glass of tap water.