You trained as an architect, so you work as an architect, right? Maybe not all the time. Some architects are hiring themselves out as owner’s representatives or going to work for salaried jobs at owner’s rep firms. What an owner’s rep does can be subtle, but architects who have tried it say the experience sharpens their ability to steer a project from brief to move-in. That can be of value later on.
Consider the job as the assumption of an identity: You’re playing the idealized owner. You hire the architect and general contactor. You set the full project budget. You manage weekly meetings of the entire team. You tag along, perceptively but unobtrusively, on site visits. You catch problems architects unwittingly miss or contractors unintentionally cause. You make the architects feel they can solve these problems. All the traditional liability remains with the architect. All the flak for a failure rests with you. Regardless, whatever goes wrong, your job was to see it coming—and knowing how to solve the problems that arise.
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