Conflicting and shared lifeworlds of practice: Architects and planners

Abstract

Architects and planners have professional conflicts with each other, but they share common external constraints and opportunities in practice that shape their actions. These constraints include professional controls, societal ideologies, and organizational functions that dictate how architects and planners can practice. Their opportunities are grounded in the prescriptions that they can make. Architects and planners share work processes and ways of designing that they confront in problem solving. These constraints and opportunities are often found in the organizations within which architects and planners practice. Moreover, changes in the political economy similarly influence both professions in the work inputs and outputs that they experience.