Today it has become a commonplace to talk about how architecture has lost the social ambitions that underlay it in previous eras, the public good is no longer its goal, and if it still has some kind of foundation of its own, then this is now just a desire to please the customer. But if this hypothesis is correct, then what can restore architecture to its former social and intellectual status? What might its social mission be in the modern era? An appeal not to forget about the philosophical foundations of the profession of an architect is in the essay of architectural theorist Sergei Sitar.