English: Since the 1830s, along with the the founding of the first Institutes for Archi
tecture, journals began to be published. They promoted the adopted duty of
the Institute to protect the works and status of its members. These journals
were mostly written by architects for architects, which led to the situation that
arguments seldom met with a response outside the profession, and caused
the discourse between architect and public to be frustrated. This state of
affairs is possibly injurious to architects themselves, and it is stated that it is not
all that difficult to write intelligibly about architecture. A similar experience in
South Africa is highlighted.