Will there still be architects in 50 years'? It is simply impossible to make reliable forecasts about the future, let alone 50 years from now. Quite simply because the future is generated in a permanent process of interacting players, events, developments and innovations and is constantly being reorganised. As civil engineers, architects are entrusted with reconciling individual interests in the building process with collective concerns in accordance with laws and guidelines. As a cultural technique, architecture reflects a community's ideas of desirable forms of coexistence, despite all diversity. The idea that an AI could soon replace architects is more likely to inspire those who would like to see architects as servile technocrats for the desires of the construction industry, but who have little insight into their diverse tasks. Will there still be architects in 50 years' time? There will be architects as long as there is architecture! As long as there are people who see building projects as an architectural task and don't just think in terms of cubic metres of concrete, or see them as an investment that is judged by the return that can be achieved. People who deal with tasks for which there is more than one answer. Who can tolerate ambiguity. Who strive for a synthesis of form and function and economy.