"These poor architects get out of grad school, imagining all the creative, artistic spaces they will design, and they get their first clients, and they sit down for a meeting, and they start talking about negative space and permeability and modernism, and the clients cut them off and say, “Actually, we want cheap.” And the architects say, “How about if I design something nice and cheap?” And the clients say, “No. Not nice. Not nice and cheap. Just cheap."

How Hard Could it Be?: Adventures in Office Space — Ruth Colp-Haber — TenantWise