This is a rant to make myself feel better.
I try not to hate architects. I went to school for 3 years with them and some of my best friends are architects, but man oh man are they douchebags. They don't "produce" anything. The only way that they can make more money is to not spend as much time on projects, so the most "successful" architects are the ones that can do the absolute minimum required on each project so that they can be working on the maximum number of projects possible.
THEN they try to act like contractors should have figured out the details that they neglected to spend the time to work out. Then it becomes "our" problem and I'm asked to screw my subs because "they should have known they were going to have to do that" even though we made them bid the work and we had to go with the lowest bidder (which is another shitty system)
I could go on for hours, but I'll sum it up:
I know there are a lot of shady contractors. I'm not one of them. The owner has figured that out to the point that they not only handed me a 12+ million dollar project without even talking to anyone else, they also delayed their high profile project a full year to be able to work with me (not with the company I work for, with me.) Why can't this cheesedick architect stop trying to be adversarial before the project has even started?
I don't want to, but I'm about to be forced to throw him under the bus a couple of times just to make a point.
