[SML] designer responsibility, was Newspaper Scenic Treatment

[Dale Farmer]

I suspect that if it was built by an architect/plumber, that the 
bathrooms, sinks and drains will be fantastic, easy to repair, and not 
need much repair to begin with.

/* cue rant */
How many times have we come to a theater and found a set of sixteen foot 
tall doors that open into a hallway that is only eight feet tall?  Or 
have a balcony that has no electric outlets for the cleaning staff to 
plug in their vacuum cleaners?  Or a loading dock that has only three 
slots, two of which are permanently occupied by dumpsters, and you have 
to make a 16 point turn to get the truck into the remaining slot?    Or 
any other of an infinitude of bad building design examples?

   I have long advocated that anyone who is going to architecture school 
must spend a year in a work study program.  They should spend time as a 
cleaner, a delivery truck driver, plumber, electrician, maintenance 
worker, waiter, cook, busboy, security guard, snowplow driver, and 
parking valet.   I would hope that they would make the buildings they 
design a lot better for the experience.
/* end rant */

   --Dale

On 1/4/2015 5:34 PM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft wrote:
> I always want to reply, asking if the theatre was built by an 
> "architect/plumber".
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> On 1/4/2015 5:13 PM, Chad Croteau via Stagecraft wrote:
>> I've also seen a few design postings that were for "design/build" or "design/hang"
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