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From: noterman olivier <onot@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 21:47:50 +0200
In Belgium Architect are protected by a law: for big buildings or a small
renovation, one need an architect! yes you do not dream.
The point is that most of the time one do not see that an architect has
designed what has been build.
Many architects are simply designing what people wants (or what they think
people wants) and they are designing all the time the same"traditionnal "
buildings.
In fact they are obviously useless.
It happens that architects are also good designers and are giving value to
what they build. They are very few, maybe because it takes long to become
able to build new types of buildings: to produce a new picture is one
thing, to produce new way of building and/or a new way of living is an
other!
In my own practice I d' nt cost a $ to my clients: the knowledge of good
and cheap contractors, the knowledge of the buildings techiques represent
a big amount of money that they d'nt spend to get building failures and
borring desing.
(The architect fees represent between 8 and 15% of the building cost.)
In architectural schools one teach many things but there is one that one
d'nt: it is how to produce his own job!
In fact one produce a lot of hope leading to a lot of inemployment.
What to say to all this unemployed architects:" Open the architect office
on the site" (as said many times Jean Prouv=E9 to people who did'nt want to
ear).
olivier Noterman
PH&Fax 32-2-374 26 57
Architect Brussels Belgium