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by desiarnezjr 1256 days ago
No.

Architects are about end results and "vision". General contractors, while imperfect, should be about getting it built.

So an architect you should roughly expect getting something built at any cost. A GC should be how to do it pragmatically or even if it's possible.

In between is the end result.
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throw0101c 1256 days ago
> Architects are about end results and "vision". General contractors, while imperfect, should be about getting it built.

Plenty of architects care about getting the details right. Check out Steve Baczek, who is online a lot, and is very interested in building science details.

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dan-robertson 1256 days ago
I think some architects will offer this kind of supervision of the project as a service. I don’t know to what extent these are handled by different people at the firm from the design part but I expect there are small firms where one person can do both.

I think it’s wrong to think that all architects are like celebrity architects. If you’re designing a house there may be room for weird designs (if that’s what the client wants) but I think there’s also just a lot of technical or boring details that are handled by architects too.

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