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Originally Posted by MFAFF
A little for instance. The 'Architect' responsible for the McLaren Technology Centre is Lord Norman Foster. He is the name most attributed to the project. Yet he did not design everything there. He set the basic design vision with RD and they then challenged his team to deliver it.
His studio designed it... with a Partner of the Practice called David Nelson in overall guidance of the project. His role is analogous to MC's role. DN was responsible for taking that vision, understanding it, expanding and refining it into a building, both in functional and aesthetic terms, of influencing the vision as his team worked thro the details, of adding his own experience and skill to the project and crafting the design. He had a Project Director working on it who was responsible day to day for the project, both in leading the design team, managing the team and in pushing forward the design. This person was the 'Tim Goss' of the team. In addition this Project Director had other Project Directors responsible for different aspects of the project.
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Thanks for the interesting info. However, I don't agree that the Norman Foster example is analogous to the McLaren team designing a car.
I certainly don't dispute what was on the McLaren website. But the point I was making was that Mike Coughlan being released by the team will be detrimental to neither the remaining development of the '07 car, nor the development of '08 car. I don't believe that MC was of such great importance in the overall scheme of things.