SHA1 Tully, your post about Buckminster Fuller's book Critical Path was very interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Architecture concerns itself with designing spaces within which people live and work.
Perhaps Buckminster Fuller had a hand in shifting the profession in this more comprehensive direction. A nonprofit educational organization has been formed to promote the ideas developed in the book. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. The next Industrial Revolution, like the first one, will be a response to changing patterns of scarcity. It will create upheaval, but more importantly, it will create opportunities.