ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the practices of knowledge sharing in the community of architects. It focuses on case studies of two Scandinavian architect offices located in a Scandinavian metropolitan area. The chapter addresses the new role of the architect in the modern period, explores the work practices and competence of architects are accounted for. It discusses a study of two architect offices, following that the empirical material. Architect's work and status are closely associated with the new era, but the post World War II period has been characterized by the relative loss of prestige. Lymer suggests that the visual representations produced by architect students are composed of both “visible” and “invisible” elements. Architect's work is a professional domain of work fundamentally visually oriented. One of the specific traditions in architect work is the use of field trips and excursions to visit, observe and experience architecture at the actual site.
