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services are worth exactly what is paid him — 

 and more. It is never less; for the man who 

 is worth less than he is receiving, either in the 

 form of regular salary or in payment for a 

 specific work, will not continue to receive an 

 advanced honorarium after his lessening re- 

 sources have been made clear. 



But the point, however, is r.ot worth argu- 

 ing. It will be admitted on all hands that if 

 an architect is employed he must be paid ; and 

 it will doubtless be admitted also that if paid 

 he should be paid on the general scale of 

 remuneration that prevails in his profession. 

 Whether reasonable or unreasonable, this scale 

 has the surpassing merit of being known in 

 advance, and its total amount can readily be 

 calculated. 



This happy process does not belong to every 

 profession. One may indeed be aware how 

 much one's physician will charge for a con- 

 sultation in his own office ; one may know what 

 he will charge for a visit to one's own home ; 

 but one never knows what one's lawyer will 

 charge, and one is invariably and fortunately 

 ignorant of the charge that will be put in by 

 one's own personal undertaker. The latter 

 very necessary and useful person may be 

 omitted from the discussion ; but the charges 

 of a law r yer are often of a nature to produce 

 excruciating pain ; they may cause unpleasant 

 language; they will leave unpleasant memories; 

 they may be matters of permanent regret; but 

 also, if you please, so thoroughly professional 

 as to be thoroughly legal and proper and quite 

 beyond dispute. 



In the matter of charges the architect shines 

 with the brilliancy of a noonday sun com- 

 pared with the monetary operations of the 

 lawyer. No one ever knows — or rarely knows 

 ■ — what the lawyer is going to charge until 

 the work has been done and the bill rendered, 

 when it must be paid or payment will be en- 

 forced, and by a process that costs the lawyer 

 very little and which will simply add to what 

 the client must pay in the end. The architect 

 charges a percentage on the amount spent. 

 The money to be spent is known ; the rate of 

 the percentage is also known ; the financial 

 result may be obtained by one of the simplest 

 of mathematical calculations. 



But, it will no doubt be exclaimed, there are 

 architects' bills which have included matters 

 in dispute, and about which the largest pos- 

 sible rows have been raised. This is doubtless 

 true, but the fault in many of these cases, per- 

 haps in the most of them, lies with the client 

 and not with the architect. The architect 

 agrees to do such and such work for so much 

 money. The client, perhaps unconsciously, 

 perhaps because he can not help himself, per- 

 haps because his own wishes and inclinations 

 broaden and increase as the work goes on, de- 

 mands more of his architect than the latter was 

 bound to contribute for the set percentage. 

 The extra work has involved extra cost in 

 materials; the architect thus expects extra 

 compensation. Could anything be clearer or 

 more reasonable? Yet many a serious break 

 between architect and client has occurred on 

 this very point, to the great rending of mutual 

 self-respect, and the creation of other differ- 

 ences of which neither of the high contracting 

 parties have much to say. 



The percentages charged by architects are 

 determined by the chief professional body in 

 the country in which the architect lives and 

 works. In the United States this is the 

 American Institute of Architects; in England 

 it is the Royal Institute of British Architects; 

 in every other country in which there is con- 

 siderable architectural activity there is like- 

 wise a general central body which is recognized 

 as the head of the architectural organizations, 

 and which determines rates and charges for 

 its own citizens. The usage that pertains to 



