... Okay, so off and on for the last two days at work - When not responding to gobs and gobs of e-mails about Potential Change Orders and selecting light fixtures that are cool but just not "that" cool - I have been distilling acoustic recommendations down into palatable client-sized bites. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that clients are incapable of understanding this stuff; far from it - But I realized yesterday that I have been working on this particular building for over eighteen months - Managing user-group meetings, considering site configurations, discussing the project with state and local agencies, working with the interns - AND - Dealing with the consultants. Essentially being a middle man between the clients and the consultants. It is not that this has never hit me before but yesterday, as I poured over eighteen pages of STC/NIC ratings, wall and ceiling assembly revisions - And, dare I say, reverberation times - I realized that my Acoustician (...who interestingly enough has a very French sounding name, a PhD, a full head of hair, drives an Audi, wears black rim eye glasses and tight black jeans; oh yeah, and lives in Marin) - Sits in his office every day and deals with not only such a niche portion of the process but also the industry; totally important and valid, but still niche none the less.
It reminds me of a quote from a great little nightstand book by Matthew Frederick called '101 Things I Learned in Architecture School' - Snap it here at Amazon: ( http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Learned-Architecture-School/dp/0262062666/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328749710&sr=8-1 ) - Anyway, the quote is, "An Architect knows something about everything. An Engineer knows everything about one thing."
Oh yeah; and yes, it was not lost on me that my Acoustician happens to very closely resemble what I thought I would look like as Architect - Happy Wednesday.
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