Answer these questions as soon as possible

[Muyasser]

Heloo every body

 

realy i need your help to answer these question

from you experts ..

 

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•Can architects take a public posture at odds with their clients and preserve the integrity and relationship of all involved?

 

 

 

•Is there a difference between personal action and the "firm's" or the "organization's" posture?

 

•Whose responsibility is it to criticize fellow professionals in matters where socially responsible designs are at issue?

 

•When does one reject a commission? '

 

•Should architects provide pro-bono services?

 

 

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please take your time and answer

 

I need the answers as soon as possible

[Muyasser]

NOT EVEN ONE REPLAY ???

[robert taylor]

Hi would like to answer your questions,But as i am not an architect i feel that i am not qualified to answer your questions.Hopefully a freindly architect will be along shortly ( please remember a lot of people are on holiday at the moment,and a quick answer might be hard to come by.Goodluck.

[Muyasser]

Thank you robert for you help ,,,

 

 

any how I will wait for more than one hour from now

 

Thank you again

[quizzy]

well its sunday, so not many of us are working, only a few.

 

I wonder where you got these questions, is it from some thesis?..

[ihabkal]

you could also ask those questions when everyone is not on vacation

[Brian Smith]

i think you'll have better luck if you:

 

1) dont title your thread like a command or order

2) explain some background information so that people feel their time is spent doing some good

3) throw in a please or thank you

[innerdream]

•Is there a difference between personal action and the "firm's" or the "organization's" posture?

 

Yes

 

•Whose responsibility is it to criticize fellow professionals in matters where socially responsible designs are at issue?

 

Everyones

 

•When does one reject a commission?

 

When it's a bad idea

 

•Should architects provide pro-bono services?

 

Yes

 

Are you a student? If so it's not too late to change majors.

Edited December 28, 2008 by innerdream

[Peter M. Gruhn]

> Whose responsibility is it to criticize fellow professionals

> in matters where socially responsible designs are at issue?

 

It is the responsibility of the people pushing a socio-political agenda to stop trying to corrupt architecture. All kinds of people with all kinds of social and political philosophies can practice architecture.

 

> When does one reject a commission?

 

Preferably before bothing to do billable work on it.

 

> Should architects provide pro-bono services?

 

See above re: political agendas.

 

> I need the answers as soon as possible

 

When should a student start researching their term paper?

[lecameleon]

Not an architect, so not really into answering these... but some of these are rather general..

 

•Can architects take a public posture at odds with their clients and preserve the integrity and relationship of all involved?

Not unless their name is Howard Roark...

Taking a public posture on anything is likely to be a bad idea if you are a businessman, unless you are a politician or a lawyer or some such thing.. Yes, in a very ideal world it would be very desirable.. but not in the real, bad, hopelessly practical world.. I think..

 

•Is there a difference between personal action and the "firm's" or the "organization's" posture?

As above, it is a matter of perception. How would you look at this? Would it not be safe to presume that either the personal or organisational aspect would not matter unless one interfered with the other?

 

•Whose responsibility is it to criticize fellow professionals in matters where socially responsible designs are at issue?

Now this is a slightly perplexing thing.. At once it is everyone's responsibility while being none of anybody's business either. Who defines "socially responsible"? As an example... building a large hydroelectric project (huge dams) that would give electricity and water to a million people but would sink land that is inhabited by another hundred thousand people. Or building an eyesore of a hotel that would rake in millions from tourists as opposed to building low cost housing for the general populace.. There are no easy answers to this one. As for criticism, as you would know to your cost it is all too easy.. and always omni-present. Whether people are qualified to criticize or not..

 

•When does one reject a commission? '

ah, this one is easy... When you are rich enough to do so or if your name is Howard Roark, as mentioned earlier..

But also, practically, when your heart is not in it.. or when the client is not really a fellow you would get along with or be amenable to suggestions or ideas. I am talking from a layman's perspective, though. My other archi friends here can correct me if I'm mistaken. You should be prepared to either kowtow to most clients (trust me, in the IT sector we see enough clients you would cheerfully kill, if it weren't for the pending payments ) or be prepared to lose them.

 

•Should architects provide pro-bono services?

What a noble idea!!! er.. and who might be the takers? If you have heard of a man called Laurie Baker I could give you a very nice example. This man settled down in India (he was from Britain).. and was one of the pioneers of low cost construction. In a country like India, with a third of the population either homeless or living in hovels, these ideas and suggestions (pro bono as you said) would have made things much better. But here is the thing, people rejected low cost housing not because it was bad looking or bad in design. Rather, it was the notion that "low cost" = cheap..

So the thing is.. when you offer a service for free, the people's assumption would be that

(a) you are a crook with an angle somewhere and that your real motive is hidden

(b) you are ruining other people's businesses

© you are pretty comfortable with your earnings now and can afford to run for election once you have done your good deed for the day/month/year..

(d) you are in contention for the Mother Teresa award..

 

 

 

I know these are rather generalized. I guess this is for your thesis. Wish I could help you more...

good luck with the paper..

 

 

[Claudio Branch]

Oh yes! Ah, I see this is something.

 

I will wait.

[TheAllusionisst]

Heloo every body

 

realy i need your help to answer these question

from you experts ..

 

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•Is there a difference between personal action and the "firm's" or the "organization's" posture?

 

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Other Questions are opinion based, plenty of people will chime in, but if you take this question and reply based on legality the two can be assumed to be the same if disclaimers and an agreement are not signed. Specifically if you take phone calls and do correspondence through place of work, then you are considered an acting 'Agent' of your employer and thus can pass on liability to them for your actions.

 

This is also why moonlighting in architecture is frowned upon and some firms require you to have a disclaimer that you aren't acting on the firms behalf signed by the moonlighting employee and their client so that the firm is not held responsible, if they allow it in the first place.

[AJLynn]

•Can architects take a public posture at odds with their clients and preserve the integrity and relationship of all involved?

 

It depends on what the posture and the public are. Most architects and clients would consider it a violation of trust to give quotes to, say, a newspaper, objecting to something your client is doing. But it's not uncommon for architects talking amongst ourselves to say things like "It sucks that they cut the budget and we had to do all that V.E."

 

•Is there a difference between personal action and the "firm's" or the "organization's" posture?

 

Sure. But there are lines. For example, in the US if I moonlight I can create liability for my employer. If I enter competitions my employer isn't going to mind, but with the understanding that if it resulted in an architecture commission we'd have to have a discussion. If I volunteered for a charitable organization like Habitat for Humanity or for a community board, that would usually be encouraged.

 

•Whose responsibility is it to criticize fellow professionals in matters where socially responsible designs are at issue?

 

Yours, if you have expertise. Withing the community of architects, discussions like that are always happening and are necessary, and can lead to important developments - e.g., these days in the US everybody's talking about sustainability on levels that almost nobody cared about 10 years ago.

 

•When does one reject a commission? '

 

My Professional Practice professor would have said, when you think you'll lose money on it.

 

•Should architects provide pro-bono services?

 

Yes, when there's an organization doing charitable work that you want to support.

[Muyasser]

Thank every body for your comments

 

I'ts good to see how you are thinking in these things

[STRAT]

a few manners would aide you in your quest my friend

[Nic H]

definately give vray a try