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My SO is an architect, my relatives and friends are also architects. Common complaint of theirs: clients like to meddle Analogy would be asking for <blink> ta
by sireat 10y ago
My SO is an architect, my relatives and friends are also architects.
Common complaint of theirs: clients like to meddle
Analogy would be asking for <blink> tags to a web developer or for gold incisors to your dentist instead of ceramics
- nradov 10y agoUnlike architects, clients have to actually live in the houses (or at least convince other clients to do so). So clients are entitled to meddle. Let's not pretend that architecture is fine art.
- sireat 10y agoAs I mentioned in another response, I meant to specify that meddling here means asking for specific features in a house in a specific place. Again, if you are a real estate developer of McMansions who knows what people buying McMansions want it might be a perfectly rational decision to meddle and ask for these features.
- massysett 10y agoSO better not let his/her clients know how s/he feels about them. Customers who are handing you money don't like to be seen as "meddlers".
- sireat 10y agoFrom what I understand it is about 20-30% of the customers who are the meddlers. Meddling means being unreasonable about specific features(I want a bathroom here! where it is a really bad idea because of a multitude of reasons) in a building/house. The problem for architects without FU money is that they have to be very tactful about handling these needy customers.
- jessaustin 10y agoYeah that sounds like a lot of architects. They have an ideal home in their head, and if clients let them they'd only ever draw one plan. Every request is a deviation from the ideal, so it would be better if clients didn't communicate such banalities as how many children there are or how big the home office should be.
- sireat 10y agoI should have been more specific on the definition of meddling. Clients communicating their wishes about their requirements is a normal process of a workflow for programmers and architects alike. What all the architects that I know of are upset about are clients that frequently specify some features (a column, a window etc) which is "wrong". By wrong I mean it is contrary to the years of experience and learning that architects have had in their craft. An analogy would be a client requesting programmer to move close window X to the lower right without a good justification.