In her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand powerfully depicted the clashes that can arise between a single-minded architect and his client. Don't let this happen to you! Through case studies, interviews, photographs, rough sketches, detailed plans, and even cartoons, award-winning architect Andy Pressman instructs both architect and client on how to work together in the most mutually supportive way. Here's what to expect during work, how to take the tension out of a project, and how to prevent typical misunderstandings. With humor and insight, he follows the fortunes (both good and bad) of more than 25 projects, exploring the reasons for success and failure in a unique guide that will prove a solid plus for both sides of the architect-client equation.
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No Headache Here,
By R. Narei (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Curing the Fountainheadache: How Architects & Their Clients Communicate (Paperback)
The book is easy reading and entertaining. Candid inside stories from some prominent architects about their client relationships on well-know projects are worth the read. I found the stories to be more entertainment than instructional. The vignettes do tend to promote of an understanding of the parties involved in the architect-client relationship, rather than provide an instructional "how-to."
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Howard Roarke lives . . .,
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I'm not sure for whom this book is written. Clients will gain little insight on how to select or work with an architect from this book, and architects will gain little insight on how to deal with a client. The examples of architecture from the author's own past are dated. In the end, I found the stories from the client perspective far more insightful than those from the architect's side. The clients were able to more clearly voice their frustration and as a result, their less than perfect projects. I don't think this book cured the Fountainheadache, but merely exposes it with no real solutions.
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Catchy title...not a great read,
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Good idea, and includes a number of great interviews with the likes of Charles Gwathmey and Stanly Tigerman. Too much of the author's person "stuff" is included, however.
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