October, 1905 



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But an architect can only think a certain 

 number of hours a day, which means that the 

 products of his imagination are limited in num- 

 ber. His assistants will increase in number 

 with the increase of his practice; his own indi- 

 vidual contribution to each work will become 

 less and less as the business grows. And it 

 must grow if he can make it, in order that 

 his income keep pace with his desires or in 

 order that he may provide himself with a 

 competency for old age. He can not do this 

 by putting up his charges, as any other laborer 

 would do when he found his services more and 

 more in demand; for there is A and B & D 

 across the street, very competent men, who will 

 do just as good work as he will for the regular 

 Institute fee of fiye per cent. He can not 

 charge more with increased popularity — he can 

 only expand, and expand, and expand, spread- 

 ing out his own effort thinner and thinner, giv- 

 ing less and less to each client, putting less 

 and less of himself into each job. 



He can not help it There is nothing else 

 to do. And this is the real grievance of the 

 architect in the matter of charges. This is 

 the reason why the five per cent, seems to him 

 so inadequate and is so inadequate. It keeps 

 him within artificial limits. He sees other men 

 in other professions gaining larger and larger 

 incomes for the same effort as the value of 

 their services becomes better known and as 

 they are the more able to pick and choose their 

 work. He can do none of this. His regular 

 charge for straight work is five per cent., and 

 that is the end of the whole matter. 



One significant aspect of this five per cent, 

 business remains to be pointed out. It limits 

 the architect in his charges, but it does not 

 limit him in his work. The architect who 

 has a million dollar job to do gives more for 

 his five per cent, than he does for a building 

 costing but $10,000. There is more to do, 

 and it must be done, or he will be a pro- 

 fessional failure. It is a magnificent tribute 

 to the integrity of the profession that this 

 should be the case. 



Architecture, therefore, is a profession whose 

 financial returns are not fixed and determined 

 by the value of the work done, by its merit, 

 its distinction, its real worth, but by the 

 amount. It is a profession that estimates its 

 returns by wholesale methods. It is composed 

 of many much underpaid men, and it con- 

 tains some laborers whose annual incomes are 

 scarcely short of princely. These conditions, of 

 course, obtain in even" calling. 



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