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fications the construction which the client wishes to have undertaken. 

 He acts as the agent of his client in making sure that the terms of the 

 plans and contracts and specifications are made plain to the contractor * 

 both before and especially during construction, and he also acts as an 

 impartial arbiter between the client and the contractor to determine 

 whether or not the work is done in accordance with the landscape 

 architect's ideas as set forth in the contract. 



In this work the landscape architect must cooperate f with other Cooperation 



professional advisers and with all concerned in bringing about the best / Landscape 

 /. mi 1-11 1 1 Architect witk 



final result. The thing in which the client is particularly interested is otner p rac ti- 



not the professional dignity nor the personal opinions of any of the tinners 

 people whom he employs, but merely the efficient completion of the 

 work undertaken. When any designer is charged with carrying out so 

 complex a scheme that the collaboration of another designer is neces- 

 sary, the simplest arrangement is to call in this second designer as a 

 consultant. The consultant supplies from his experience and skill 

 information and suggestions for the consideration of the responsible 

 designer, and looks over the whole work with a view to discovering any 

 consideration in the design or any flaw in the execution which might 

 have escaped the attention of the designer. The consultant is not re- 

 sponsible, however, for the perfect execution of the work. It is assumed 

 that the designer is competent to do this, and he cannot be relieved of 

 this responsibility without confusion. 



Where one man is incapable of undertaking the general responsi- 

 bility for the whole work in this way, two or more men may share this 

 responsibility. Under these conditions, it is essential to fix some defi- 

 nite delimitation of the field within which each collaborator is entirely 

 responsible. In the case of the private estate and similar work, the 

 only clear delimitation is a territorial one. It is important, however, 

 that each designer should serve as a consultant on the work of the 

 other, and that there should be fixed upon both the joint responsibility 

 for harmonizing the work as a whole. Such cooperation means that 



* Cf. p. 344. f Part of the substance of this follows a paper by F. L. Olmsted, Jr., 

 Cooperation between Architect and Landscape Architect. (See REFERENCES.) Co- 

 operation among students of the Fine Arts is now promoted by the fellowships in land- 

 scape architecture at the American Academy in Rome. (See Transactions of the 

 American Society of Landscape Architects.) 



