Fight for architecture

An architect, through drawings and descriptions, outlines the scenario of future events in space. They initiate and direct the design process. Without them, neither the developer, the investor, nor the local government can start. The architectural record is not yet a work, just as a script is not a film. But without this initial creation, such as a conceptual architectural design or an urban development project, other partners cannot move forward. The issue is that they can finish without us—architects—because we do not know how to stand together against it. We do not defend our copyright to our works where they have primary, not tertiary, significance and market value. The process of building creation and their further life in real space depends on many of our partners, engineers, and many decision-makers. An architect, like a screenwriter, does not realize the final work, although they define its plot idea, write the narrative into scenes, determine the turning points, the punchline, and the meaning. But without the investor—the producer, who organizes the financing and has the decisive voice in casting, just as without the set designer and costume designer in a film, and above all, the director who leads the actors—a good final product will not be created, even if the script is excellent. (...)