ABSTRACT
The next few decades will likely see the automation of most repetitive and dangerous work, and the emergence of work that resists such automation in six areas: jobs that involve caring, communication, creative, construction, craft, and community work. Architecture involves aspects of all of these “six Cs” and it offers a model of how people can continue to do purposeful work and have meaningful lives in an era in which machines will do a lot that we are neither good at nor enjoy. Architecture also faces a future in which there is more work than ever in meeting the needs of populations disrupted by everything from climate change to technical obsolescence.
