The Hunter-Gatherer (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} faustin) wrote,@ 2009-06-29 00:55:00 |
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photos of the new pentagon
Just a couple photos.
Until Friday I was somewhat frustrated with our progress. On Friday afternoon I sat down with the architect in his studio and we hammered stuff out.
Over the phone, the architect was hopeless. In person, and while working in his archi-cad, he was much better.
But he was frustrated and started whining that he couldn't concentrated. I got up and took a break, when I returned, his approximately 20-year-old, mexican, bilingual assistant was in his seat.
Then the work really started moving. The architect was hopeless at articulating his thoughts or ideas, he was slow to get conceptual stuff (as best I could tell), but when we started working in the CAD software, he got better and the conversation got better.
Then he got out of the way and let his uneducated assistant take over, and the work suddenly accelerated dramatically... and actually got done.
At one point, I was prompting the architect: "Look, I am sure your software has snippets we can cut and paste, drag and drop, to represent toilets, showers, sinks, and other features. You should even have a mop sink and water heater, and windows. Let's drop those in there so we can have numbers and sizes attached to our thinking."
He got vague, "Yeah, definitely, we have those, and we'll do that."
When I returned and his assistant was on the computer... all that stuff got populated and placed in about 5-10 minutes. Duh.
What does this guy do? Acts like a hippy with his long stringy hair and baggy jeans. His more professional, more articulate, faster, and seemingly in every way more competent, uneducated assistant, was ten times the architect he was in every measure that I could perceive.
I'm tempted to fire the architect and cut a moonlighting deal with his assistant.
Just a couple photos.
Until Friday I was somewhat frustrated with our progress. On Friday afternoon I sat down with the architect in his studio and we hammered stuff out.
Over the phone, the architect was hopeless. In person, and while working in his archi-cad, he was much better.
But he was frustrated and started whining that he couldn't concentrated. I got up and took a break, when I returned, his approximately 20-year-old, mexican, bilingual assistant was in his seat.
Then the work really started moving. The architect was hopeless at articulating his thoughts or ideas, he was slow to get conceptual stuff (as best I could tell), but when we started working in the CAD software, he got better and the conversation got better.
Then he got out of the way and let his uneducated assistant take over, and the work suddenly accelerated dramatically... and actually got done.
At one point, I was prompting the architect: "Look, I am sure your software has snippets we can cut and paste, drag and drop, to represent toilets, showers, sinks, and other features. You should even have a mop sink and water heater, and windows. Let's drop those in there so we can have numbers and sizes attached to our thinking."
He got vague, "Yeah, definitely, we have those, and we'll do that."
When I returned and his assistant was on the computer... all that stuff got populated and placed in about 5-10 minutes. Duh.
What does this guy do? Acts like a hippy with his long stringy hair and baggy jeans. His more professional, more articulate, faster, and seemingly in every way more competent, uneducated assistant, was ten times the architect he was in every measure that I could perceive.
I'm tempted to fire the architect and cut a moonlighting deal with his assistant.
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