What ‘The Future of The Professions’ Reveals About the Future of Architecture: https://www.danieldavis.com/future-of-the-professions/

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2/ Bespoke design services -> Systematized design services

3/ Standardize the product (mass production) -> Standardize the process

4/ Reactive services (waiting for a client to bring a problem) -> proactive services (anticipating problems)

5/ Generalists -> Specialists

6/ Drawings, writings, and pitches -> Emails, chat applications, and social media

7/ Intuition, renderings, and charisma -> Data and performance

8/ Computers as machines -> Computers as design partners

9/ Competing against other architects -> Competing against other service providers

10/ Too much variation to automate -> A standard process that opens opportunities for automation and outsourcing

11/ Firm's value was in its people -> Firm's value is in its process

12/ You legally had to hire an architect -> You do it yourself or buy architecture as a service

13/ Architects were too expensive for many projects -> Architects work on many projects

14/ Hiring architects, drafts-people, and assistants -> hiring computational designers, sustainability consultants, BIM managers, workplace strategists, social media managers, visualization specialists, business development specialists, and architects

15/ Firms led by architects -> Firms led by business people

16/ Licensure is a necessary career milestone -> Licensure isn't applicable to your specialization

17/ Colocation -> Offshoring and outsourcing

18/ Selling time for money -> new business models