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$70/hr for an architect in my neck of the woods is dirt cheap. I am used to seeing $125 or more.
I'd suggest you have this conversation with your architect, not us. You should have had some understanding of the process at the beginning. If not, get with him and work it out.
I'd get happy with the concept sketches before any sort of detail designs or renderings were done. No point in going down a dead end.
All of my experience with architects and owners "who know what they want" leads me to the following observation. An architect's job is to give the owner something that he needs and makes him happy in the end, not what he asks for in the beginning. I haven't met an owner yet that had any sort of good ideas on layout. A good architect will show an owner lots of things he'd never figure out on his own and avoid all of the fruitless ideas that go nowhere.
If this project were mine, I'd figure that I owe the guy what's on the bill. It's too late to negotiate the price on what's already been done.
JR
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