Consequences: Architecture is public work. Over the past 158 years, we have seen the profession evolve from civic art into a service business influenced by private interests and priorities. The movement towards service has also been a movement away from risk, public leadership, and relevancy.   Architects now ask how to regain public value. Value cannot be claimed, it has to be created.  This means risk and leadership. We should measure our work not on accomplishments of service or appearance, but on the public effects and benefits in the community. The public consequences of the work are a much larger and truer measure of the value of practice. We ask ourselves, “What are the effects and qualities that we create outside the lot lines?” This is a path to relevancy.