I don’t know about you, but now that I’ve been out of school a few years, I’m finding it increasingly more difficult to not get frustrated by endless stacks of RFI’s, tight budgets, or impossible project schedules.
Sure these things are accepted parts of our profession, but at what point do you draw the line? When does the work we do cease being a shelter or a communal gathering place, and become a soulless shell of a building, waiting for yet another tenant move-in? Is it wrong of me to think that ever since the move into the “real world” that architecture has slowly been less about true design and more about the ever-present bottom line?