To expect basic science from architects?

Corbusier designed a lot of housing. Of course there are really good architects and I can think of many beautiful modern buildings that fit their purpose and are a pleasure to look at and be in but the problem is that so often it is the Rogers, Fosters et al who influence public policy and feel that they should dictate to us what sort of buildings we should live in and use.

Apparently, there was a different design that incorporated outside shades for the windows. The client wanted to cut costs and decided to dispense with them, despite the architect's advice. X

Really, gracesmum!!

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Or at the architect's backside?

And beamed it back at the building elegran ?

And......... today is forecast to be the last of the hot sunshine.

Shouldn' t laugh.

Instead of screening the shops, they could have added some kind of collecting dish at the focal point just in front of the mirror, and got some solar energy out of it. Possibly provided heating for the building, that would have gained the architect some brownie points instead of made them a laughing stock.

It seems that they have erected a sun screen now in front of the shops that were being scorched by the 'walkie scorchie' building.

I think they vary, don't they, architects. I did take pleasure in giving out a little to my BIL (architect) about the terrible toilet design in a small Irish airport... My only chance to berate the architect in person

I do that with my frying pan MargaretX! Only it lives on the top of the wall cupboard. Gets harder to reach as I get shorter, too!

That was nothing to do with the architect though. He didn't design the kitchen.

I may be wrong but Richard Rogers house on the ile St. Louis was pointed out to me. A beautiful elegant C18 Building which bears no resemblance to the stuff he inflicts on us. BTW I live in an architect designed house and its taken me about twenty odd years to make it live able in. But I think architects are becoming more realistic.

But aren't they very problematical to maintain? I was visiting the Glasgow school of art on a tour and we were talking about the houses in Chicago which I had visited. An American on th same tour told me that the engineering side of the structures was causing problems.

Any other Frank Lloyd Wright fans out there?
We visited the Pope-Leighey house on one of our Virginia trips - fabulous.
Not sure I'd have wanted to live in it though

Architects spend about 50% of their time on building sites making sure the builders do as asked in the drawings. They have to take out indemnity insurance for any mistakes. An interesting corollary is that members of their family are also deemed to be responsible now. If my husband had worked for himself, Now that he's dead I would be held responsible. That does not happen to doctors, even though their wives often work for them.

I do not think the architect is responsible for what the occupant decides to put on a kitchen shelf. I am sure there were other cupboards where your mother could put her pots and pans, MargaretX.

Doctors bury their mistakes and architects cover theirs with ivy (as someone once remarked)

Perhaps too little presence during the building process is required of them. A friend in Germany is an architect and she spends hours and days on windy building sites and is held responsible for the house she planned.

I know they can be annoying. I grew up in a Sheffield Council house with a kitchen shelf for pots and pans too high to reach, even standing on tiptoe. My mother threw the frying pan up onto the shelf and got quite good at it. Sometimes she missed and a whole lot of pans came down again. I think she would have really strangled that architect because she threatened to do it often enough.

Not saying all architects are numptys J52, just this one as J08 said.
Why would he make the same glaring (see what I did there?) mistake twice?
Who pays for their mistakes?

I thought it was metal too. Like the energy saving potential of frying eggs without using a cooker..........

I did n' t know they had plastic on Jags.

To be fair they did say it is only a few days at this time of the year that this should happen. still very silly though. It's as though they just want to out-do each other with weirdness.

J52 Sorry! Just read your previous post.

I'm sure most architects are excellent.

No. Only this one.

And the one who designed our house!

During the 8 years pre qualifying, architects have to pass many exams including structural engineering and law. To continue to become an architect a 1st class degree is required by many universities. I don't think they can be described as 'numpty's.