Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conducted by the GCLE funding committee during the time of the Largey incident said that "the bureau has done its best work in its lower priority areas" of individual contact. The report concluded that the Bureau's structure had effectively "insulated the administration both from other staff and the client population." And it termed the core Bureau's four-level decision-making process "needlessly complex" for a staff...
...architecture, which has very little to do with the realistic solving of problems." The problems are posed and solved by what Kahn calls "reprogramming," and a radical questioning of the use a building is to be put to. Such questioning can make Kahn's relations with a client prickly, but it also produces remarkable collaborations, like the one with Dr. Richard Brown, the director of the Kimbell Art Museum, who supervised and fought out every detail of Kahn's proposals during the six years they worked together on the building. "But he was always on my side," chortles...
...designed by one of the world's great architects-Marcel Breuer. At 70, Breuer is not anxious to design houses. He will take on a dwelling, says his office, "if it allows him to explore new ideas." Such exploration would necessarily include "a nice site and a client who is not only nice but who will also allow construction without an economic struggle." Breuer's value is universally acknowledged. His price: 15% of the building's cost, the standard commission charged by lesser architects. Excellence costs no more than mediocrity-and it can get your name...
...mitzvah for his son." Then he heard a story about a man who was swindled by his accountant, and "that triggered something in my mind." After some Funt calls to banks, brokers and the police, Accountant Seymour Goldes was indicted on charges of stealing from his star client the grand sum of $1,285,826. Said Funt, unsmiling: "The guy and I couldn't have been closer...
...family camper, trying unsuccessfully to learn something specific about the case against him. Even when Di Noi, after weeks of imprisonment, is finally allowed to see a prison official, he bungles the interview. Di Noi requires a lawyer. The one he chooses is so incompetent that for another client, one of Di Noi's fellow prisoners, he draws a severe sentence on a minor charge, driving the prisoner to suicide. After this and accidental implication in a prison riot, Di Noi slips into despair and madness...