[SML] designer responsibility, was Newspaper Scenic Treatment

[Risk Intl. - Dr. Randall W.A. Davidson]

Ah yes. I provided a total risk assessment of that facility three times,
inside and out.....a long story...and just completed the brother of that
site...in California....ah ha. Dr. Doom 


Dr. Randall W.A. Davidson, Product Liability and Risk Management Assessor at
Risk International - www.riskit.com. Focused & Integrated Solutions to
Global Problems - www.globalhealthandsafety.net. ISETSA - International
Secondary Education Theater Health & Safety Association - www.isetsa.org.
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net] On Behalf Of
Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 7:09 PM
To: Dale Farmer; Stagecraft Mailing List
Subject: Re: [SML] designer responsibility, was Newspaper Scenic Treatment

Dear Dale,
Then, again, you have the Grady Gammage Theatre in PHX, designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright, who forgot is own idiom: 'Form Follows Function', when it
comes to truck maneuvering along a nonstandard curved driveway.
/s/ Richard
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Dale Farmer via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 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".
> ________________________________
> 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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/s/ Richard
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