Why you need an architect

6 years ago

Every time someone waffles on the value an architect might bring to their project, I think I’ll bring up this post. From a zoom presentation on a local architect who designed some of the most beautiful houses and municipal buildings in my area. The presenter has just published a book on him, and this presentation was done in coordination with our local history center.

These slides relate to the design of a school, built in the mid-1930s. But he did the same for homes,

I’ll start them in the comments. But this first one, well, it says it all.

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bpath
Original Author
6 years ago

And this is what that attention to detail produces:
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Mark Bischak, Architect
6 years ago
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Seabornman
6 years ago
That first slide means this: nothing. What a vague and pretentious amalgam of words. I'm an architect and I laugh at it.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
6 years ago
"All miters and jointing shall be perfect."

Yeah, just like your drawings and specifications are.
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Charles Ross Homes
6 years ago
Had a chuckle over the architect's standard "all miters and jointing shall be perfect."

There is no such thing as a perfect set of plans neither is there a "perfect" execution by human hands utilizing natural materials.
res2architect
6 years ago
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I take it the architect was working in the 30's. That would explain the archaic language and odd syntax.

Most of it would not be enforceable today.
bpath
Original Author
6 years ago
Yes, that project was from the mid-1930s.

I doubt it was enforceable back then. Nice that he cared, though.