Architect Wants Draftsmen’s Activities Curtailed

Worried by the ac
tivities of quacks in the building environment with its attendant negative impact, an architect, Leonard Ibe, has called for efforts to curtail the activities of draftsmen.
Ibe, who was speaking to The Tide shortly after a forum in Port Harcourt recently said that most of the challenges that are visible in the housing sector are largely due to the activities of quacks.
He said that many draftsmen have now taken the work of architects, pointing out that such scenario does not speak well, as draftsmen are not trained architects.
According to him, their skill as draftsmen will not be like that of architects, especially in a high technology design.
Ibe described a quack as anybody that is undertaking a job for which he is not trained, pointing that many of the collapsed buildings and defects that are noticed in buildings are as a result of quackery.
He, however, absolved architect of not being responsible for any building collapse and urged government and the public to always engage the services of architects in the design of buildings.
The architect also called on his professional colleagues to always come up with designs that will have minimal negative impact on the environment.
He said, “there is no life without the architect, and there is no space without time. Architects are agents of change and urbanisation is a process, but not an event, so architect should be advocates, while the society is the client.

Corlins Walter