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THE ARCHITECT AND HIS 

 CHARGES 



( Continued front the September Number) 



This is an impressive series of figures, of fig- 

 ures generous in suggestion, and more favor- 

 able, it might seem, to the architect than to the 

 client. Yet the men who prepared this 

 schedule have, time and again, demonstrated 

 the value of what they have given for their 

 money, for they have produced some of the 

 most notable buildings in this country, both 

 public and private. It may be there are archi- 

 tects who will do this work for less money, 

 but it will not be the work these men do. It 

 may have every excellent quality, but it will 

 not have the particular quality that makes the 

 charm and interest of the work of the authors 

 of this schedule. 



And this touches at once on the chief draw- 

 back of the percentage charge for architects' 

 services. It places all architects on the same 

 level. It is a charge based on mediocrity. It 

 gives the poor architect more than his intel- 

 lectual services may be worth; it deprives the 

 great architect of due recompense for his own 

 individual qualifications. The great physician 

 and surgeon can charge more than the unsuc- 

 cessful man ; the great lawyer sends in alti- 

 tudinous bills, which indicate rather his own 

 estimate of the hole he can safely put in his 

 client's fortune than the real value of his serv- 

 ices — a perfectly legitimate performance which 

 has had the most eminent support and ex- 

 emplification. 



But the great architect, the man who is 

 truly great, great through personal qualifica- 

 tions and not through the extent of the busi- 

 ness brought into his office — this man can not, 

 by the rules of his profession, charge more than 

 his most indifferent brother. It is true, the 

 official schedule calls the five per cent, a 

 " minimum " charge, but this is an agreeable 

 fiction, for the architect who actually gets 

 more, in the usual run of work, is exceedingly 

 rare, if not wholly unknown. 



Of all the great professions that of archi- 

 tecture alone has been brought to the basis of 

 a trade union by the uniformity of its charges. 

 The lawyer and the doctor, the engineer and 

 the teacher, the painter and the sculptor, the 

 clergyman and the editor, even the clerk in an 

 office, can regulate his charges by his ability. 

 Not, of course, that the able man is always 

 well paid; he rarely receives adequate com- 

 pensation, and never at all, judged by his own 

 standards ; but the able man in any profession, 

 save that of architecture, can charge what he 

 may and what his services will command. The 

 architect can do nothing of the sort. Certain 

 architects have certain vogues; some are more 

 sought after than others; the work of some 

 architects are more often seen in work of a 

 certain class than the work of other men — a 

 sure indication that they have a vogue and a 

 certain amount of appreciation — or is it be- 

 cause they are the fashion ? But the hated five 

 per cent., which in the early days of his career 

 appeared so generous and so ample, now in 

 the heyday of his fame is totally inadequate. 



And rightly so. The practice of architec- 

 ture is an intellectual profession which can 

 only be successfully pursued at the expense of 

 much valuable gray matter. The architect 

 must not only have clients to succeed, but he 

 must think and toil with his brain. He must 

 know all about many different things. He 

 must know what others have done, and when 

 and how they did it. He must be up in 

 science ; he must be in touch with processes ; he 

 must know how to build; and, above all, he 

 must know how to design. The latter is 

 a purely intellectual accomplishment which is 

 not readily valued in money. 



