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Fiery
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Tue May 16, 2006 10:01 am |
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communication
I came across this article and it seems to show how difficult it is to communicate when you are working on an international project. I am providing the lasst paragraph as the article is large but worth reading.
Communication
Finally, this experience has exercised my ability to communicate the design intent, both verbally and graphically. The contractor’s engineering manager, after becoming frustrated with some part of our design that to him seems illogical, will sometimes surprise me by asking “Okay--explain to me the architectural [which they pronounce ‘ar-sh-itectural’] reason for doing it this way,” and I’ll suddenly feel like I’m back in front of a group of grumpy grad-school reviewers, trying to explain my naïve attempt at clever design. Except this reviewer has no use for that silly, obfuscating language most of us used to describe our designs in school. I’ll have to clearly explain the design in a way that seems logical, or risk losing my credibility as a competent parent to this newly forming building.
In terms of graphic communication, it’s valuable to see the effect that a poorly executed or incomplete drawing can have. Numerous times I’ve been surprised to find out that the building in our drawings is not the building in my head. Those notes or details that you fail to include in the drawing can, and do, come back to haunt you.
Most of the issues I've mentioned here have nothing to do with the fact that the job is international. For me, however, the international aspect makes the job much more interesting and rewarding. The project participants share a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. I can think of 10 different nationalities working on the terminal, and each of them adds some new or different perspective on how twe can meet various challenges. Suppliers and supplies come from a wide variety of countries, and I’ve had the opportunity to visit five of them so far for shop visits or supplier meetings. I often tell people I meet on Curacao that I’m the only monolingual person on the island, and sadly, I may be correct. Most people on Curacao speak at least four languages (English being the fourth), and I’m again reminded how much I need to learn a second language. Finally, it’s nice to see our country from the outside; to hear what people think of us, to see what we do well, and to notice how we can improve. I’m happy to say that this opportunity has improved me.
http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_nacq.cfm?pagename=nacq_a_060112_inside_walter
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Tue May 16, 2006 12:06 pm |
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Thanks Fiery.
That reminds me of an interview I once read an interview with Pete Townsend in which he was saying, (I'm paraphrasing) "of course, every album I make, I want it to be brilliant. But sometimes it is very difficult to translate what is in my head to the actual album. So many other things can affect it, like engineering, producing, sound recording, the studio, the microphones, etc."
It's amazing when things can all flow together to create something brilliant. But, it's rare, lol.
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