The Public Leadership Potential of Architecture

 

An architect’s planning, design, and correlation education represents an unrecognized leadership and research asset of public value in my opinion. Unfortunately, this formal education is diverted along an apprenticeship, licensing, and employment path focused on the correlation and contract assembly required to define the shelter investment goals of private interest. This puts the public interest at risk because architecture, urban design, and city planning are currently lacking a mathematical vocabulary and language capable of leadership evaluation and consistent direction toward shelter for the activities of growing populations within geographic limits scientifically defined to protect their source of life and their physical, social, psychological, environmental, and economic quality of life. “The Equations of Urban Design” has been written and self-published on Amazon to provide the vocabulary. The values evaluated and adopted for use in these equations represent a potential language that can be used to lead the future.

Walter M. Hosack, May 2025