My experience with architects is that, absent a direct mandate from the owner, they see space for electrical and electronic equipment as something to be minimized to the extent possible.  They all pay homage to "Form follows Function" but it is the exceptional architect that follows that dictum.  It is all about visual aesthetics.  I have thought that they should be required to go around campus for a semester in blindfolds in order to learn to appreciate non visual perception.  Perhaps they should also spend a year in classes without heating, ventilation and air conditioning, trying to keep their CAD stations running.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."