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Fountainheadache The Politics of Architect-Client Relations

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ISBN-10: 0471309923

ISBN-13: 9780471309925

Edition: 1st 1995

Authors: Andy Pressman

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List price: $60.00
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Domestic Affairs
Conflicts and Closets
"All Great Architecture Leaks"
The Sauna and the New Jersey Turnpike
The New Yawkas
Archiphobia!
Private Battles in the Public Domain
Fusion of Old and New at the Guggenheim
For the Glory of Washington
Penn Plaza and the Design Review Board
Collaboration Versus Compromise
Collaboration at St. Matthew's
The Closest Kind of Collaboration
Contemporary-Traditional in Florida
A Collaborative Ideal
Working with Specialty Consultants
Foreign Affairs
Emotion and Ethics in Architecture
A Project Dies Because a Country Disappears
The Hospitable Tunisians
Is the Camel a Horse Designed by Committee?
The Client of Many Minds
Design with Committees
Institutions, Clients, and Service
Patience Is a Virtue
The Politics of Design: Race and Gender
A Black Architect on a Mission
Politically Incorrect in Wichita
Gender, Marketing, and a Client's Faith
All About Communication
If They Don't Understand You, You Haven't Said Anything
Treating Clients as Patients
Architects as Great Communicators
Legal Pitfalls of Poor Communication
The Mercurial Client
Corporate Politics
The Power Structure
Resolving Profit with Social Responsibility
It's All in a Name
All Projects Great and Small
Measure Twice, Cut Once
Less May Actually Be More: The Politics of the Small Project
When Clients Think They're Architects and Other Tales of Woe
Room without a View
An Academic Perspective on Architects and Clients
Debate about the Architect's Role - Future and Present
A Jarring Footnote: The Need to Formally Explore the Architect-Client Relationship
Index