IN GRAPHIC DETAIL, THIS NEW TIMELINE SHOWS JUST WHO’S MAKING A MISTAKE IN THINKING THOSE WHO DESIGN BUILDINGS CAN DO NO WRONG.
Frank Lloyd Wright famously observed that "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” And that was long before the Internet stripped strategically placed foliage from its already limited power to cover tracks. Wright’s black witticism aside, an architect’s mistakes could prove far more consequential than matters of landscaping. After all, if a building fails and collapses, that can cost lives.
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