It's funny, it seems I've some how fallen on the outs with the bookstore. I'm no longer invited to the meetings they have with the architects. In fact this past week the University architect invited me to the meeting and I was kind enough to ask the manager of the bookstore if that were okay with him, to which he promptly said no, it wasn't okay with him.
It's funny to me how architects work, or more how it seems they are forced to work. First they are hired by a business to create a space, say a bookstore. Then they have several meetings with a group of people that work for that store to determine the conditions for the design of the new space. Who determines which people they will work with? Will they be working with the president of the company who has several meetings with the rest of the employees (or the rest of the managers) to determine what they really need? Will they not meet with anyone at all and be asked to create the entire design themselves? Or will they meet with a panel of people who are in no way representative of the entire functionality of the company? If either of these later is the case who ends up getting blamed for parts that the architects (not knowing the kind of business well enough) overlook? In actuality it is unfair to blame the architects themselves, they are simply doing their job with the tools which they are given, but I feel sometimes they are the ones to be blamed, strangely enough.
I suppose this holds true for any kind of project, not just an architectural project. When one goes into anything not asking a true panel of representatives it makes it difficult to get enough information to do the job right.
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