Mark responded to my follow up email and noted his appreciation for my doing so and wanted me "to know that the lack of tone in the email likely also colored my [his] response about 'free' work."
Lesson two: Design Quality vs. Financial Perfoma
Mark presents a perspective which deserves consideration. I quote from his email:
"To be clear, money has never been my goal in any part of my practice. Any I've ever made has gone back into the project or into books ( as you saw ). You heard me describe pejoratively the 'usual' developer idea of architectural services as "decorating the financial model" - one which denies that the actual quality of the architecture / design of the work might have any real value beyond additional hyperbole in the marketing. Or the notion of the "market" as any kind of index of quality at all."
I will leave it at that for now. Marinate on it and let it resonate with you for a while. I'll come back to it later.
J2M
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