Your article illuminates no public or human dimension of materiality and, therefore, nothing of larger social value. This type of irresponsible design is part of the reason for our recent and future energy crisis. It looks good in the glossy photos but doesn't make much sense. I know the clients sign the check, but it is the architect's responsibility to promote smart, sustainable design. Forcing all those who wish to become architects to pay for graduate school will only serve to reduce drastically the number of architects entering the field.
Good people are already hard to find.
Low salaries pushed many of my fellow graduates into other fields. They were talented people who would have made fine architects. Besides, a master's degree doesn't translate into more billable hours. It's just more school. Last November an architecture student was killed in a car accident during finals week because he fell asleep at the wheel after pulling many all-nighters on his studio project.