The architect and the client cannot agree on a design

2018-11-27 18:47:24

How is the best way to reach an agreement here?

Together – not here.

On the other hand, points like room sizes etc. were not implemented satisfactorily.

I completely agree with @furchur Rooms often develop naturally. And if a client comes with various demands, meaning ideas that clash with each other, then the architect can only lose because the client’s ideas or wishes cannot be realized.

Although I actually wonder: what if the client and the architect keep struggling forever?

Do you want to keep struggling with your architect forever?

You actually choose a freelancer because of their personal style. Not done? Or has he changed his style now?

2018-11-27 18:49:47

Except for the surveyors of course :) but that applies to all freelancers. Only with the doctor does your health insurance pay, with the lawyer maybe the legal expenses insurance. But if you commission a portrait from the painter, he also sits in front of the easel for days. It would be unfair if he didn't get paid just because you don't like yourself.

:D laughed out loud!

2018-11-27 19:24:43

:D laughed out loud!

No, the truth. You seem to be a freelancer. What happens if your client tells you "Man, I don't like seeing you messing with my database every morning"? Do you insist on contract fulfillment or do you go through with it?

2018-11-27 20:01:30

No, the truth.

Oh, you are no fun! He is still willing to compromise. It doesn’t hurt to play through the escalation in order to avoid the escalation.
If both actually don’t want to continue, it turns into a poker game. One wants as much money as possible for his service, the other wants to pay as little as possible for useless things. Both don’t want a court case because it is expensive and nerve-wracking. Who concedes how much and when? Who risks the trial? If one of them plays wrong, the lawyers win.

2018-11-27 21:13:11

I'll put it this way: You distrusted the architect from the very beginning... why did you let him work?

2018-11-27 22:35:01

The question is, is it only about "taste" or did the architect fail to implement certain requirements that were presented from the beginning? According to your description, it is more the former, which is then the bad luck of the client. The architect owes a faultless and approvable plan, all in consideration of initially agreed framework conditions. He does not owe beauty in the eyes of the client's expectations.

In this case, the services rendered are to be paid in full. Depending on how far phases 1-3 have progressed.

Fuchur is absolutely right! Your architect can basically invoice phases 1-3 and even without a signed contract, since from his point of view he has delivered the service. There is no two ways about it.

The comment about acquisition is really the kicker. When I was still in consulting, customers also wanted the first 2 days as free acquisition. Morons!!!

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