Asked where these come from, architects admit a kind of ignorance: ‘Total magic!’ as one puts it, ‘Something comes from nothing!’ Focusing on the everyday lives of architects, the book explores how buildings are assembled through an intimate and elusive choreography of people, materials, places, tools and ideas. In a large room, on the third floor of an old woollen mill in the South West of England, nine architects spend most of their working lives, designing buildings and overseeing their construction. This fact invites to a review of their education an occupational pattern. For Iranian small design practices, official duties, integration with clients and designing of some small projects are three common roles of the technician that are not within their official defined education as well as professional place. The difference of the models falls into directness or indirectness of the mediatory role of the technician between architectural designer and other human figures in design decision making (clients, law agents, other engineers of building and operational forces). The all models of the varieties of occupation patterns of building technicians around the world are summed up in four conceptual models.
The results of this study show that draftsman place in its historical evolution has experienced a vast change from an expertise-based hierarchy towards societal hierarchy. The ethnographical strategy is chosen for the third part of the research where middle-range forces of the small design practices of Qom are studied (using deep observation, deep interview, and objective questionnaire technics) to be compared with findings of previous studies and make conclusions. For the second part, a logical analysis of official documents is used to produce a general model of the subject. The first part of the article, proposes a conceptual framework for studying status of architectural technicians from antiquity to present comparing Iran and the west. The study aims at clarifying the occupational position of draftspersons and construction technicians and their impact on architectural designs.
But these human forces have always been marginalized within research discourse as well as the educational context of architecture. In Iran, the construction industry is mostly based on an overwhelming pattern of mutual design practices where the majority of expert personals are design and construction technicians. The constructions of the building professional body has been a main research subject in recent two decades.
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