proinvest: a strategy to improve the business environment for architects
proinvest | objectives | issues | output
The Caribbean region like many other developing countries reveals growing concerns about the deterioration of the physical environment, both natural and man made and the impact ofthis deterioration on the quality of life and environmental stability and sustainability. The evident deterioration and neglect contributes to social, cultural and economic impoverishment. The complexity of society in the Caribbean is amply reflected in the numerous and often confounding linkages which various islands have with one another and the outside world. The practice of architecture is no different. Caribbean architects working in insular groups are so consumed with the demands of day-to-day professional practice and the internal operations of island and territorial contexts that they largely overlook global and regional issues; issues which may fundamentally alter the nature and scope of their practice and which if they continue to be neglected will further contribute to the deterioration of the environment. Professional architects should play a much greater role in protecting public interest.