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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The programming CULT (WOW!)
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Date: 10 Aug 90 01:14:57 GMT
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In <9646@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>He often complains that architects design structures that cannot be built; it
>is often up to the carpenter to make corrections in the design as he goes,
>or get the architect to correct it.

>He has said many times that the best architects got their start in the trades;
>one can tell a plan that was drawn by a former carpenter as it is easy to
>build.

A major factor in the extra time and money that it took to build the Sydney
Opera House was the architect's insistence that the distinctive roof be
structurally self-supporting.  Techniques already existed for building a
facade that shape, but it took considerable effort to invent the necessary
techniques to do it the architect's way....
                                     Dave