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Title: Ties That Blind: Working for Loved Ones can be the Best Or Worst Experience of Your Life (Practices)
Author : Residential Architect
Release Date : January 01, 2003
Genre: Art & Architecture,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
Pages : * pages
Size : 166 KB

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As clients go, architect Mark Simon's mother was one of his most aesthetically adventurous. In 1973, fresh out of Yale Architecture School, he designed an underground house for her in Vermont. "She claims she asked for a tower," says Simon, FAIA, of Centerbrook Architects in Essex, Conn. So 12 years later, he designed another house for her on Long Island, N.Y., with a prominent octagonal tower. "I have found my family and friends to be in the upper echelon of clients, in their attitude toward me, in their equanimity, in their politeness," he says. "Maybe because they know me and trust me a little more." After a year or more of shepherding custom-home clients through design and construction, you might start thinking of them as friends, or even family. Maybe you've had dinner together, shared theater tickets, or had a passionate discussion about why a material they wanted didn't work with your design ideas. Although architects sometimes develop relationships with clients that go on for the rest of their lives, chances are even your most faithful clients have never seen you in braces or dressed for the senior prom, taken a vacation with you, or attended your wedding.