AR 428/Regular Architectural Practice

(Midterm Grading)
Lecture 8
The Architect and the Law
The Virtues and Values of the Architect
The Spectrum of the Architects Services
The 3-D Wheel of a Building Project

The Virtues of an Architect

May the Architect be high-minded;
not arrogant, but faithful;
Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice;
Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts,
But let him preserve his good name with dignity...
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

THE VALUE OF THE ARCHITECT

The Architect creates mans environment through his awareness and sensitive handling of spaces that
fit the scale of human experience. The resulting quality of the form-envelope manifested as a structure or
building gives rise to mans appreciation of beauty and order in his physical world.

The Architects deliberation determine how people will be placed in relationship one to another, how
whole societies will work, play, eat, sleep, recreate, travel, worship, or in short how people will live in
consonance with their culture and national aspirations.

His objective is to bring order to mans environment to cause it to function properly within a structure
that is safe and healthful and to impart to the whole a beauty and distinction that is appropriate to our time.

THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECTS SERVICES

The spectrum of the Architects services extends over the entire range of activities that proceed from the
time the idea is conceived, perfected, transformed into sets of space/ design requirements, translated into
structure through design, built, used and become a permanent feature of the man-made environment.

The Architects services consist of the necessary conferences, deliberations, discussions, evaluations,
investigations, consultations, advice on matters affecting the scientific, aesthetic and orderly coordination of all
the processes of safeguarding life, health, and property which enter into the production of different levels and
sophistication of man-made structures and environment.

The Architect, in the process of translating abstract ideas into meaningful concrete terms, produces
documents in the form of a data base report, an architectural program, a feasibility study, a market study, an
appraisal report, an impact analysis report, a space-organizational setup report, a site planning analysis and
evaluation report, an operational programming report, building programming and scheduling report.

A complete and detailed documentation of construction or erection drawings is prepared consisting of

the architectural plans, the structural plans, the electrical plans, the plumbing/sanitary plans, the mechanical/air-
conditioning plans, the civil work plans, the technical specifications and the other bid documents.

Aside from these, the Architect can prepare the post construction management documents, the
operating manual, the maintenance manual and other forms of written and graphical documentations necessary
for the effective and efficient functioning of the man-made structures and environment.

An appreciation of this scope of services of the Architect will bring into focus the crucial role that the
Architect assumes in the realization of abstract ideas into tangible and meaningful terms.

Between abstract ideas and the physical world, stands the Architect.

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THE 3-D WHEEL OF A BUILDING PROJECT

DECISION TO BUILD by the Owner

o Purpose
o Size
o Cost
o Location

DESIGN CONCEPT by the Architect-Engineer Consultants

o Space
o Function
o Stability
o Environment
o Aesthetics

DELIVERY SYSTEM by the Contractor

o Men
o Material
o Equipment

Cost and Finance

Time Control Viability
Quality
Control

Project Manager
Construction Manager
Full-Time Construction Supervisor

Assistance