The role of an architect

Architecture is something related to human feelings, human feeling is not always rational. But the building itself is in a form of rationalistic way and the process of the construction is much more rational. However the architect is there to create the spatial progression and combine all the other building materials together to make a better living space.  But our architect in this small context there to do everything sometimes architect are responsible all the bullshit happen in side of the site and the construction part of the building. Therefore we need to understand the role of an architect inside of this little context.

In my case our case most of the people don’t know who is an architect. Recently I met a set of family they think that the architect is the person who decide the vastu so they start asking from me about vastu science. And  working people think that we are like engineers its sometimes true that we are responsible for the structure, but I think that the society should define the role of the architect or else  the architects should make a noise to render what is the architects role.

When I was in Jaffna people used to observe the architect because in Jaffna the architect is the only person who designs the temple (devala). So they have enormous faith on the architect. Really what they do was they do a painting on the temple wall and say the bass people that this is the temple plan and this is how you should make the temple. However for this drawing they make special wall in the temple land and give devotees to the wall. It was a strange for me because for the first time I have seen somebody worshiping the plan of a building.

Whatever is the reason we also struggle in the working places how we should behave in front of the people, people have different appearance and approach to the profession.  So it is good if somebody had defined the profession. But then again in the construction who would be the responsible for the product making process of the building. Who would be the responsible for the construction process?