Comments on: More worst practices of Enterprise Architects

By: danmihalache

danmihalache — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:42:17 +0000

Excuse for my poor English

By: danmihalache

danmihalache — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:39:44 +0000

Yes, Julian, everybody must learn and use technology, mathematics, physics, psychology, aesthetics – and every domain develops daily. Without my computer and internet I should change my profession. But the computer and internet are simple instruments, inestimable – but instruments. Stuccture calculation is a domain for the engineers, but for me is also an instrument as well as for the engineers architecture is an instument.
If I’d have your mail adress I’d send you a graphic of aquantance in different epochs. Nowaday aquantance is, indeed – not only inconceivable without computer and high technology – but in a revolutionary progress as never before.
Cheers, Dan. (and the same to Chris).

By: julian l

julian l — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:33:55 +0000

Reading the above comment – and I realise that the domain of architects in the traditional meaning of the word may hold some interesting lessons for us technologists.

By: danmihalache

danmihalache — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:10:42 +0000

Hi, Chris,
I’m Dan Mihalache and I’m architect in Iaşi, Romania.
You are right. Architects, like the others, are idler. Not to spend the whole day at computer or drawing board or buildingyard, but to think. In fact, the mission of the architect is to create, not to draw. Architecture is an art and a science, but more, must combine the science and the art syncretically, to emphathyse (is it corect in english?) with the client, to think and to feel what the client is not prepared to know or feel. But yes, nowaday there are models, there are patterns, why to whittle yourself?
Here in Romania it is an additional reason: although we have minimal legal pricess, nobody keep to them. The clients, upstart (nouveau riche, becouse it’s very hard to bild here with an average income) incline to spent a lot of money for luxurious for construction stuffs or expensive cars, but not to pay the architect or the designer; they think if they were smart (tricky) enough to make money they are more clever than the architect. And so they do cheep and blunder projects, spend a lot of additional money and obtain improper and unsuitable buildings.
Best regards,
Dan.