{"id":1569,"date":"2015-04-23T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpletwig.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:11:08","slug":"are-you-sure-you-can-be-the-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpletwig.com\/blog\/are-you-sure-you-can-be-the-architect\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you sure you can ‘be the Architect?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I meet a wide variety of people who become my clients. It should go without saying that I often reject potential projects due to the characteristics of people and what they want (often requesting me to approve an illegal design direction).<\/p>\n

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My best clients have a combination of a vision of needs they have combined with a willingness to listen to their Architect to help them sculpt it into the best solution that will be beautiful and functional. \u00a0For those who I reject as clients I am reminded of these people:<\/p>\n

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Here an elderly lady of a congregation in Spain said she could restore this master painting\/fresco of Jesus. \u00a0While she obviously wanted to help she unfortunately didn’t know anything about history, painting, paint, technique and all the other things required to restore a fresco. \u00a0It’s not that she was a bad person, but now this painting is ruined forever, and that is the danger of taking on a project that has permanence, that you would end up with a very expensive disaster.<\/p>\n

The next example I also love as it clearly shows an individual getting a permanent (relatively speaking) tattoo. \u00a0The client here is trusting an individual who clearly doesn’t know how to draw let alone should not be inking people’s skin. \u00a0You have to wonder if the ‘artist’ just started tattooing that day as a career change, or to fill in while the real tattoo artist was out for lunch. \u00a0Just because someone sounds convincing that they can ‘do it,’ you have to make sure they are actually professionals with real experience that has grown over the years.<\/p>\n

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I only hope those who are considering a home addition, renovation or new house consider the above as lessons learned. \u00a0What a home owner or client should do to ensure the success of their own project is concentrate on two main components: 1) the program and 2) the budget. \u00a0The program and how a building functions will be developed along with an Architect, and a budget can also fluctuate but only the owner will know exactly where they stand financially. \u00a0The architect though can put together the composition and program into a fully functional and beautiful reality that will serve the owner and occupants well for decades to come.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if you are itching to ‘be the architect’ take up cupcake making instead. \u00a0If you’re great at making cupcakes then maybe you have a talent for painting, if you’re great at painting then maybe you’ll be great at space planning, and if you’re great \u00a0at this then maybe you’ll be great at being an Architect at which point you should go to school for 8 1\/2 years to learn the basics of Architecture, spend a few years as an apprentice, and then design your own home.<\/p>\n

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Regarding potential clients I reject, it doesn’t happen that often and generally most understand that what they are requesting is not allowed to be done, like adding a mezzanine in an apartment with high ceilings, but the mezzanine would make the ceilings too low, or adding a bedroom in the cellar. \u00a0I have found that some of these people plan on doing the illegal work anyway, so put me in a bad position of denying them their request (obviously creates a conflict based on their own stubbornness), therefore and with the years of experience I have I carefully interview potential clients to see what they hope to accomplish, and to test them to see if they are open minded or stubborn and closed minded with a \u00a0tendency to control and dominate others (all bad characteristics for clients). \u00a0Like I said I rarely meet these types of negative people, but it does happen so I have to stay aware when that phone rings. \u00a0On the other hand, those other clients I do take turn out the best projects, so everyone wins.<\/p>\n

Read more about the failed painting restoration here on Wikipedia:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecce_Homo_(El%C3%ADas_Garc%C3%ADa_Mart%C3%ADnez)<\/p>\n

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