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> Maybe in Germany an architect can make a flawed building and get away with it, but in America the buyer or resident will have recourse to the courts and will
by rkangel 6y ago
> Maybe in Germany an architect can make a flawed building and get away with it, but in America the buyer or resident will have recourse to the courts and will take advantage to the maximum possible.
The article that we are commenting on here is about a property in the US where they had absolutely no legal recourse, either to the seller or the builder/architect. The timescales are too long with houses for there to be any guarantee of there being a business to be held liable.
- jiofih 6y agoNot only that, in most of western Europe you get 5, 10 or more years builder guarantee, regulations are very strict, insurance is extremely cheap, full coverage and no-questions-asked. The majority of houses are concrete or masonry and not oversized wooden crates. I don’t even know how Germany came into the picture, but that attitude explains a lot of the boring “box with a sign on it” architecture.