LA 1201 Chapter : Legal Aspects In Design
Document Summary
Design service profession: provide services that affect the public. Sectors: private - do work for individuals or private individual, public - do work for business like a zoo or national park service, academic - cultivate and educate the future designers and teachers of the profession. Legal term - position of trust (limited) agency relationship - represent individuals for specific functions: principal - the owner/client (person who wants the project and has the money, agent - landscape architect. Independent contractor - not associated directly with the agent - the contract is with the principal and the agent decides what the independent contractor can do. Scope of services: agents should not exceed the scope of services. Landscape architects violate the agency contract when the landscape architecture doesn"t do what the principal wants: there are limited areas of ideas that work for everyone involved in the project. Landscape architect: client, public, environment, the more factors involved, the smaller the space for design ideas.
