We’ve unilaterally decided what you did was under our jurisdiction and as you’ve not paid us money, we’ve decided to take it from you anyway. I’d say just ignore it, but as I’m personally dealing with some idiocy from another jurisdiction which is preventing me from getting a federal job, you really can’t anymore.
It is conceptional artwork, not architecture. This type of commission is so incredibly common that a friend’s son who just graduated from Pratt did much the same, and he is most certainly not a licensed architect.
It is an intriguing concept that the Oregon board is pushing forward, especially since so many local jurisdictions invite conceptional proposals for public buildings from around the world.
Which is pretty much where I’d start any battle over this; if you did not assign a fine to x firm from China or France for a public building in Portland, how can you possibly justify assigning a fine for conceptional artwork for a housing development?
This is a known and time honored service — Architectural Delineation. It makes detail artistic images of buildings and developments for marketing, review, and presentation. There are artists that have done this as a niche market for a hundred years.
My dad (also a builder as I have been) had an artist friend and his wife who were his pals for fifty years and he was internationally known in that business. He was never a licensed architect.
These boards love their power. And the power to destroy a little person prime excites them most of all. They are small minded people who like to see others grovel before them. The best response would be to sue them into oblivion, since one can’t legally kill them.
The Oregon Board is scum.
The taxpayers of Oregon should be forced to pay the legal expenses of the defendants.