You get the opportunity to design an office building. To rake in extra money, you decide to design the interior as well; however you have to try to convince your client the importance of a well designed interior. He's not convinced, because you of all people have a poorly designed, terrible looking congested office. What do you do or say?
A sign of genius is a focked up desk?
Hire an Interior Designer to clean up your office?
Tell them that Jackson Pollock designed your space that way & that it's art?
I like BRIGHTSIDE's choice B), though you may have to keep this up for the project duration.
Well, look at it form the other side. How credible would a nutritionist be if he or she would weight 600 ponds, an illiterate school teacher or a pilot that has a fear for flying?
People have certain expectations for certain professions and architects are expected (by the general public) to have nice offices or at least something that resemble ‘design’. When you walk into a tattoo parlor you expect the artist to have at least a few tattoos. It doesn’t make him necessarily a bad artist if he doesn’t have any, but that is just what you expect. Working in a tattoo parlor is something you do most probably because you like tattoos, you like the art side of it, so you bound to have one. Having a nice office may indicates that you like nice spaces. After all, that’s one of the thinks you do for a living. Now, we all are aware that architects don’t have a dime to spare for a bucket of paint, but what amazes most clients and myself is that architects seems to just hate to work in nice spaces.
To convince the client; compare your profession with the one of the Bentley mechanic, who loves Bentleys, but just can’t afford it. This ought to work
How to convince a client to.........
Case # 1
You get the opportunity to design an office building. To rake in extra money, you decide to design the interior as well; however you have to try to convince your client the importance of a well designed interior. He's not convinced, because you of all people have a poorly designed, terrible looking congested office. What do you do or say?
jaja,
That's a toughie.
take him on a tour of good and bad spaces and show him the differences?
A sign of genius is a focked up desk?
Hire an Interior Designer to clean up your office?
Tell them that Jackson Pollock designed your space that way & that it's art?
I like BRIGHTSIDE's choice B), though you may have to keep this up for the project duration.
Well, look at it form the other side. How credible would a nutritionist be if he or she would weight 600 ponds, an illiterate school teacher or a pilot that has a fear for flying?
People have certain expectations for certain professions and architects are expected (by the general public) to have nice offices or at least something that resemble ‘design’. When you walk into a tattoo parlor you expect the artist to have at least a few tattoos. It doesn’t make him necessarily a bad artist if he doesn’t have any, but that is just what you expect. Working in a tattoo parlor is something you do most probably because you like tattoos, you like the art side of it, so you bound to have one. Having a nice office may indicates that you like nice spaces. After all, that’s one of the thinks you do for a living. Now, we all are aware that architects don’t have a dime to spare for a bucket of paint, but what amazes most clients and myself is that architects seems to just hate to work in nice spaces.
To convince the client; compare your profession with the one of the Bentley mechanic, who loves Bentleys, but just can’t afford it. This ought to work
Bentley? when did this become a thread about Microstation?
ha
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