It’s true: Life just gets more and more complicated. And so it is for the field of architecture. Do we yearn for simpler times—the cherished good ol’ days? Progress is good, supposedly. For better or worse, the evolution of business is inevitable. Bob Dylan said it well: “The order is rapidly fadin’. And the first one now will later be last. For the times, they are a-changin’.”
Are you an architect that works on a signature vision, honing it year after year—resulting in a personal language like Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, or Tadao Ando? Or do you claim, like many architects try, to have “no preconceived notions” of design?
Following up on Part 1 of the 661st episode of the podcast, Convo by Design, here are additional highlights. Josh Cooperman and I discuss, “Redefining the ‘Strength’ of Southern California Architecture,” and a “tipping point” in architecture.
There are many ways an architect is compensated for design services. The three most common are:
1. Fixed fee,
2. Hourly rate, or
3. Percentage of the construction cost.
On the 661st episode of the podcast, Convo by Design, we examined, “Redefining the ‘Strength’ of Southern California Architecture,” with host Josh Cooperman and architects Ben Ballentine and Luis Murillo. From our 90-minute conversation, here is part 1—highlights between Josh and me
25 years in the making, the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“LACMA”) recently opened to the public. The adjectives are in: ravishing, dismal, lyrical, divisive, pugnacious, palpable, disorienting, iconic, polarizing, dazzling, inelegant, revolutionary, one-liner, monotonous, and so on. The range of commentary is vast, being that much of criticism is subjective.
