[Sigia-l] You're not alone

[Arthur Fink]

At 02:41 AM 2/17/2007, Ziya Oz wrote:
>If anything can illustrate the delicate dance among clients, designers and
>developers transposed into another profession, this is it. :-)

It doesn't read as very "delicate" to me.

Architects asked to work within a budget of X, designing a project 
that will cost 2X (where X is experienced as a large number by the 
client).  In my experience many architects excel in the design phase 
but are weak in assessing initial conditions on a renovation 
project.  A bit more humility, and use of consultants for that area, 
could make a big difference.

Part of listening to users is listening to their sense of their own 
constraints.

At what point do you tell a client that their budget will buy 
something, but twice or three times the budget will buy something of 
much more value and with much better payback?

Arthur


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