The Need for Architect/Construction Worker Dichotomies in Information Architecture as a Profession
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Sauer, Geoffrey
CPTSC Proceedings
2002

Abstract:

I would suggest that before we adopt the 'information architect' model and concede the construction worker (role of 'other') to many members of our field in order to negotiate management positions for a few, that we look to other professions to see how they have resisted this dichotomy. It may be argued, perhaps, that professions such as medicine and the law have managed to avoid successfully such hierarchical dichotomies -- at least in part. At the least, we should debate the possible implications of such systems more rigorously than we have to date.