Architect/Client Relationship

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply a good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

He may, of course, have some very curious ideas, and I do not mean to say that they are silly ideas.

But being untrained in architecture they just cannot know what is possible and what is not possible.

by Mies van der Rohe