Four walls and a roof : the complex nature of a simple profession /

Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect, buffeted by external forces that make a mockery of any pretense to visionary aut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graaf, Reinier de, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Architectural practice.
Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Architectural practice
Architecture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Authority: I will learn you architecture!
  • More specifically, everything
  • Let me finish!
  • Four walls and a roof
  • II. Default by design: Bloody fools! The story of Pimlico School, 1970-2010
  • Architektur ohne eigenschaften
  • Neufert: The exceptional pursuit of the norm
  • Reference without a source: The appeal of Atlanta Airport
  • The inevitable box
  • III. Found causes: Spaceship earth
  • Mies en scene
  • Intruders: How smart technology infiltrates architecture
  • "Public" space
  • From CIAM to cyberspace: Architecture and the community
  • With the masses: The architecture of participation
  • IV. Trial and error: Ex nihilo nihil fit: Part one
  • London
  • How is Denmark?
  • Ex nihilo nihil fit: Part two
  • Facing the facts
  • Naukograd
  • A Spanish tender
  • On hold
  • V. Powers that be: After the end of history
  • The other truth
  • Socialist in content, realist in form
  • The descendant: A conversation with Xenia Adjoubei, Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter
  • Undesirable work styles
  • A benevolent dictator with taste
  • Royal approval
  • His architect
  • A property developer for president
  • VI. Megalopoli(tic)s: A Faustian bargain
  • Amanha
  • Smart cities of the future
  • The sum of all -isms
  • Dear Mr. Barber
  • At your service: Ten steps to becoming a successful urban consultant
  • Rankings
  • VII. Progress: Coup de grace: Pruitt-Igoe revisited
  • The century that never happened
  • In memoriam: a photo essay
  • The captive globe
  • Remains of a brave new world.

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