Posted by Jacques Pochoy on June 05, 2002 at 15:26:56:In Reply to: Re: Critique of the Critique posted by Richard Haut on June 05, 2002 at 10:47:32:
sometimes wish that the critic would simply get out of the way and let us see the building ...
*sigh*
And I would add, "to let us live with it"! I agree with Paul on the fact that, whatever building, it's easy to come ten years after and point at such or such details to say that the architect was "bad" (or worse, modern, post, corb's, khan's and so on, check the proper assertion)!
Some times ago, while renovating a 1918 social housing in Paris, I had the complaint of the guy in charge of the existing building stock who was loosing his temper on the other guy of the same public office in charge of the "new" buildings...
The latest was boasting that he could do decent social housing for the lowest price in Paris, whatever the architect, while the other had to spend quite a lot of money to refit those same buildings five years later...
Here, in France, we teach that to have a really good building, you need a "good" architect, but also a good "client"! We have the wordings that goes with it.. Maître d'Œuvre- (master of the design) and Maître d'Ouvrage- (master of the building in the sens of property).Funny, while searching in a small automatic translator, it gave "work" for the two of them?
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