Essay on Does an Architect’s Ego Get in the Way of...

Does an architect’s ego get in the way of sensible design? Does it? Does an architect have an ego? Well what is ego for that matter? â€Å"Ego: A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance† (oxford Dictionary) this is a very tame definition, most people will agree when saying that the definition of ego is in fact the arrogant part of you that in some ways makes you think you are superior or the less cynical of us would like to say an ego is the autopilot of the mind, it’s the thing that one does out of conditioned reflex as a response to any situation, it is biased to childhood and professional experience, an ego can be flexible and adapt to its surroundings., or in many cases I doesn’t, which gives way to the definition of it being the†¦show more content†¦He describes the movements that spread due to the members of Bauhaus fleeing from Nazi Germany, how it affected America and the future architects approach to design. Firstly what he puts across is the minds sets of the architects or as they were called in the time â€Å"White Gods† this alone I believe could have done some significant damage. This notion was made clear when reading about the worker housing exhibition project (Weissenhof Werbund Project) undertaken by Mies Van De Rohe, Le Corbusier, Stam brothers and Victor Bourgeois along with 11 other German big names. The brief was simply to design worker housing, but these architects all had an agenda, to obliterate bourgeois buildings for good, to simply out it. They designed in white, grey and in straight lines, as the book describes, â€Å"How did worker housing look? It looked non-bourgeois within an inch of its life†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (From Bauhaus To Our House, Tome Wolfe, Page 31) clean-cut rooms built to their approval was then handed over to the workers, they had loud opinions about it! Simply described as a minimalist cube with grey and white for a burst of colour. The workers des perately tried to make the rooms more comfortable and more â€Å"homey†. The need for user consultation was completely disregarded, the workers were thought as underdeveloped and that the architects had the responsibility of re-educateShow MoreRelatedProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 PagesStevenson, Operations Management, 10th Edition Swink, Melnyk, Cooper, and Hartley, Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain, First Edition Thomke, Managing Product and Service Development: Text and Cases, First Edition Ulrich and Eppinger, Product Design and Development, Fourth Edition Zipkin, Foundations of Inventory Management, First Edition QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Hillier and Hillier, Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets