Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Design review/architects

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

I just want to underscore something in this thread- someone (I'm not sure who)
mentioned  the fact that often (usually) the person who draws the plans is not
the "architect".

In my experience, once in the "feasibility study" stage and one in the townhome
planning stage, we had situations where the "architect(s)" came and listened to
us, worked with us, and then went away and the plans that came back had very
little to do with what we'd said (1st case, drawn by an intern, 2nd I'm not
sure).  Our development consultant and one of our members (former architect)
actually did a lot of the design.  Just a caution to pay attention to the
communication between the group and the actual person(s) doing the plans.

Judy

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
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