Henry is a seasoned architect, he has gained a lot of respect over the years through a distinguished career of innovative and even inspiring structures, monuments, and buildings. He even recently won the Pulitzer Price for a museum he designed in the middle east. He currently is a partner in a very respected firm and a large municipality announced recently a design competition for a large municipal project that would bring a lot of recognition to the designer. He sees it not only as a great business opportunity to bring added recognition and money to the firm, but also an opportunity to communicate something to the community.
Typical Architecture firm office. |
Memo for municipal competition team:
Hello everyone! Attached to this e-mail are some conceptual sketches that I've rendered. Review them and see what you think. We'll have a meeting tomorrow morning at 10 to talk about the sketches and do some additional brainstorming together for this thing.
-H.
Zaha Hadid, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner... she probably designed what she was wearing that day. |
Say that the firm wins the competition, and thus contracts with the municipality to build this project. After that point the architects will meet with whoever represents that part of the government, probably a city planner or someone on some committee or something. Henry will be present, and, honestly, he can wear what he wants. Most architects wear very simple clothes, blazers, nice shoes, sometimes just t-shirts. When meeting with this client, Henry will probably wear a blazer, a plain shirt or sweater underneath, and some ridiculous pair of glasses (architects can pull those off... one of the perks.) A client might think, "...that wouldn't be appropriate in my office, but he is an architect, he must be really... cool, I trust him to make something cool."
Bjarke Ingels, a pretty young architect who has kind of exploded in popularity in the past decade. I don't even know if he's wearing a blazer or a hoody... or both. |
How do you think the verbal communication would be formed? Do you think it would be as casual and direct as the email? What about other aspects of the architecture world: other members of the team?
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