There will always be a role for someone with a knack for organizing verbal information in design and construction work.

Think specs aren't the sexy part of architecture? They should be. Strength in a veil. King's Cross Station. I stayed in architecture, when engineering was looking awfully tempting in college, because I love working with the surfaces people touch, walk on, hear, and smell. And I discovered, later, that I love specs for the control they give me over these very senses, as people experience the finished work. If you want a sexy project, you need sexy specs. Now, I'll admit, speci