Chapter 01 Christina Farrell

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The Relationship between the Architect and the Clientand how the public perceives the role of the Architect


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"I don't intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to

build."Howard Roark, hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead


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Frank Lloyd Wright remains the undisputed champion of architectural arrogance, astature born out by anecdotes aplenty. My favorite involves an enraged client whocalled Wright to complain that the roof was leaking onto her dinner guest. Wright's

response: "Tell him to move his chair.


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Le Corbusier espoused radical changes in architecture and planning, based oncopious theorizing but only a handful of actual buildings. "I propose one single building

for all nations and climates," he proclaimed in 1937.


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Three years after it opened, MIT filed a negligence suit against Gehry, claiming design flawsin the $300 million building had caused major structural problems. Drainage issues had

caused cracks in the walls. Icicle daggers hung pendulously from the roof like deadly sashweights. Mold grew on the buildings brick exterior. The school paid more than $1.5million for repairs. A spokesman for the construction company, Skanska USA Building,

claimed the company had tried to warn Gehry of problems with the design on numerous

occasions, and had made repeated requests to use more suitable material. "We were told toproceed with the original design," the spokesman said, "It was difficult to make the original

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In May, for a cover story in The New York Times Magazine, Michael Kimmelman, the chief art critic

of The Times, interviewed Richard Tuttle and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, an artist and a poet, whocomplained that the 1,300-square-foot guesthouse Mr. Holl designed for them in New Mexico had

cost more than $600,000, twice its original budget, and was, Mr. Tuttle said, uninhabitable half thetime.

Tuttle: "The place is uninhabitable half the time. It's too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter.

With lasers, they devised a footprint, a slab, on site, then when the panels arrived they didn't fit

they had to pull them together with straps, like a corset. Not very bright. Any damn fool knows you

don't do these two things separately. I respect Steven. He's an artist. It's not his fault if the whole

architecture profession is ego gone wild." He adds: "It turns out that the greatest invention, the one

that made civilization possible, is caulking."


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Rafael Vinoly- Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The organization filed suit against the architect in November 2005, accusing Mr.

Violy of being an architect who had a grand vision but was unable to convert

that vision into reality, causing the owner to incur significant additional expenses

to correct and overcome the architects errors and delays.


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Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its

friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a

building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for somecommon ground of understanding and experience.John Portman


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An ugly room can coagulate any loose suspicions as to the incompleteness of life, while a sun-litone set with honey-colored limestone tiles can lend support to whatever is most hopeful within us.Belief in the significance of architecture is premised on the notion that we are, for better or for

worse, different people in different places-and on the conviction that it is architectures task torender vivid to us who we might ideally be. The Architecture of Happiness

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