Reply To: Public vs. private// No use for license

I agree that creativity is not central to the design process that takes pen to paper in order to develop spacial solutions to a project site. I would even go as far to say that from a project development standpoint you will by far have greater freedom for creativity if you position yourself into a place where you can use that pen and paper to create a more denominational solution to project funding. All the best designed sites in the world don’t break ground without funding. I have designed plenty of wonderful projects that through value engineering, budget cut, loss of financial backer, and economic recession, have been constructed as a shell of the original design intent. This has happen so often that I often wonder if my creative talents would be better put to use working for some development group. At the least it would put me in a position to have some control over how a project is constructed and what is cut from the budget.