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From: dsucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (david sucher)
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
Date: 18 Feb 1994 08:00:52 -0800
SNYDER JOHN DAVID (snyderjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: Has anyone here read _The Fountainhead_ by Rand? What do you think of the
: ethical properties of an architect dynamiting a building that wasn't built
: to his planned specifications?
There's no ethical issue at all, unless the initial agreement with between
client and architect stated that the building would be only be built
EXACTLY as drawn by the architect. There are very few clients, I imagine,
who are so unwise or so greedy for the brand-name reflected-glory of a
'famous architect' to agree to that one.
It's another example of the 'artistic fallacy' i.e. architects are
artists. Many errors follow from this very small mis-understanding; it was
not just Ayn Rand who got it wrong on this point.
David Sucher
From: dsucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (david sucher)
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
Date: 18 Feb 1994 08:00:52 -0800
SNYDER JOHN DAVID (snyderjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: Has anyone here read _The Fountainhead_ by Rand? What do you think of the
: ethical properties of an architect dynamiting a building that wasn't built
: to his planned specifications?
There's no ethical issue at all, unless the initial agreement with between
client and architect stated that the building would be only be built
EXACTLY as drawn by the architect. There are very few clients, I imagine,
who are so unwise or so greedy for the brand-name reflected-glory of a
'famous architect' to agree to that one.
It's another example of the 'artistic fallacy' i.e. architects are
artists. Many errors follow from this very small mis-understanding; it was
not just Ayn Rand who got it wrong on this point.
David Sucher