The AIA, with the best of intentions, has been working for the last 50 years to protect architects from exposure to excessive risk through the limitation of legal liability in the standard AIA contracts and the promotion of the standard architect-owner-contractor triangle of contractual relationships.  Though this has helped protect practices from lawsuits, it has also reduced the power that architects have. During the design phase, architects have control over the process, but once the design it complete it's out of their hands. The contracts give architects little or no opportunity to ensure that designs are realized according to their intent, no tools to counter the ravages of value engineering. If problems arise during construction, the architect is treated like 'a little girl' (Gehry's words). '"There, there," the owners and GCs say, "it'll be all right, just let us big boys figure it out."' And while the architect is blamed, ignored, or both, they take the project into their own hands.  

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