On May 29, 11:03 pm, blueman wrote:
jJim McLaughlin writes:
I'm surpised that you didn't seek the collective wisdom of this group to
do the design and construction supervision work on your house.

But that wouldn't make much sense would it?

And for the same reasons that you wouldn't seek the collective wisdom of
this group to do the design and construction supervision work on your
house, you should't be looking for the text of contract terms here.
Hire a professional in your area who actually knows the applicable law.

I imagine that hiring a lawyer to write and negotiate a contract for a small
architect project would probably exceed the cost of the design. Many
industries use relatively standard forms and I was just asking whether
such things exist for architecture that are reasonable balanced
between client and the architect.

But they won't be tailored to your circumstances and unless you do
that what protection do you think you're going to get that a standard
form will provide? Read Hobbes' response -- it has some valid points
and points you to the AIA standard form you could look at for
comparison.

Alternatively, have you simply raised your concerns w/ the architect
you're dealing with about what other protections you would like?
Perhaps you can work something out. OTOH, you could take his standard
and the AIA standard to your attorney and ask them to provide some
legalese that addresses your concern(s) and then see if the architect
will accept them. Probably wouldn't be but a couple hundred bucks if
you don't want to get too carried away.

Of course, by then you'll probably have convinced the architect he
doesn't want you as a client anyway as you're going to be far more
hassle than a very small job could possibly be worth so you'll then
get to start all over searching for an architect and repeat...