Curing the Fountainheadache: How Architects & Their Clients Communicate

by Andrew Pressman

In her novel The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand powerfully depicted the clashes that can arise between a single-minded architect and his client. Don't let this happen to you! Through case studies, interviews, photographs, rough sketches, detailed plans, and even cartoons, award-winning architect Andy Pressman instructs both architect and client on how to work together in the most mutually supportive way. Here's what to expect during work, how to take the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140272604X
• ISBN13: 9781402726040
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

No Headache Here

The book is easy reading and entertaining. Candid inside stories from some prominent architects about their client relationships on well-know projects are worth the read. I found the stories to be more entertainment than instructional. The vignettes do tend to promote of an understanding of the parties involved in the architect-client relationship, rather than provide an instructional "how-to."