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Originally Posted by calculoso
Is what you're saying is the trained professional designers should have a monopoly on ideas on how a bridge (etc) should look, and everyone else should stay out of it?
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Nope, never said. Although having an idea and being able to execute it are two different things. My dad comes up with great inventions in his head every day, doesn't mean that he knows how to make them happen (or if they are realistic to begin with).
There is something to be said for leaving tasks to the professionals who actually have some training (an architect does what, 4-6 years of school before he can even build anything?). I don't perform surgery just because I watched ER a couple of times. I can try, sure, but what are the chances I'll be anywhere as good as the guy who actually knows what he's doing?
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Originally Posted by calculoso
Kids are pretty imaginative. Are they going to come up with a perfectly workable design? Of course not... but they could generate ideas that a true professional would take and run with. Where's the harm in that? Too much pride?
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Sure, they are, but why waste time and money as a City going to some random and unpredictable source for inspiration, when you can just go to an architect...someone who is supposed to have the know-how and creative tendencies right from the start. Let him worry about idea generation.
Btw, Im not an architect either. I can make nice doodles in my sketch book, but I know better then to try and pretend they are better than what an architect can do.