re: #291 Surabaya Stew

re: #69 Obdicut

Gee whiz, just as I left the (Architects) office where I work, my profession gets slammed by my fellow lizards! What timing my lurking mode has…

Anyway, I can certainly say that the biggest rip off in Architecture is the low salaries that us Architects make. Combine the liability and required schooling of a Doctor with the salary of a garbage man (without union benefits), and you have what honest Architects bring home.

Dishonest Architects use unpaid interns, HB-1 visa holders, and unqualified draftspeople to bring their costs down. If my profession has a bad reputation, it’s at least in part because society doesn’t properly value (and pay for) our contributions.

CAD killed the Architects. Any twink with a computer can design a house. Too bad the foundations are totally inappropriate for the underlying soils, but by the time the house starts to break apart, the original designer is long gone.

Amateurs have no business acting as professionals, but that is the world we we live in. We don’t want quality, we want *value*, even if it is false value. Your profession, especially in residential construction, is the poster child. I cannot tell you how many slab houses have been built in East Austin on a massive shrink/swell montmorillonite clay.