Architects must learn to speak the language of money
Many architects treat finance as a foreign language and cost discipline as a threat to creative intent, fearing they will become accountants who occasionally sketch. Architect Debbie Flevotomou argues the opposite, and her rose-crowned architecture makes the case in built form: financial fluency does not starve design quality, it fuels it. Buildings this daring get financed when the architect can speak the language of money.
