they can get unmade for half a dozen different reasons. we can get to those doorknobs in time so we're going to make those decisions, the builders who are holding the hammers and screw guns also frequently, especially in a house, will discover a condition that nobody knew was there. the grain pipe or uer or a structural condition, there was a lack of -- you name it. so the decisions that happen during construction i would recommend. architects would recommend that you continue to engage them at least in terms of helping you decide when you read that fork in the road, which way to go. >> one of the state law requirements in owner is that it must include provisions for ending the contract. so i believe if you look at the contract you signed, you will find a paragraph that says how to determinity and it's frequently something like 7 days written notice by either party. should be no problem with that. gets considerably more complicated when you talk about juan rr architect taking over the work that has been produced by another architect and th

i am interested in what makes something a consensus, what was it that was unmade? >> in a sense, the word consensus would have to appear in quotation marks. there was a myth that after world war ii, certainly since the eisenhower administration accepting the new deal as a basic template, eisenhower saying anyone who fiddled with social security would never live another political day. i might even read a classic statement of how the american consensus was thought up at the time. the dean of rutgers wrote in the magazine partisan review, "in america, there are no basic disagreements between intellectuals, bankers, trade unionists, artists, big businessmen, the knicks, professional people, politicians to name a few or between the economic crisis." there are no real critics, no new ideas, no fundamental differences of opinion. the idea that the western world, not just america, had converged on the idea of the welfare state -- that is a way to organize the world -- was just seen as permanent. what is so fascinating to me is almost immediately, the 1960's gives rise to t