The lecture deals with the role of the architect in a changing society and the society and the new challenges that arise from it. New challenges that go beyond the traditional job description. The conventional job description. It will be critically questioned whether, and if so, to what extent the architectural education is responding to this development and architects on this path the appropriate tools in their hands. Architects with the appropriate tools for the job. One of the central questions in this process, to which the lecture seeks to provide an answer, is: How much communication does architecture need?