Architects : : Portraits of a Practice / / Thomas Yarrow.

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 33 b&w halftones
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
BEFORE THE BEGINNING --
Part 1. THE OFFICE --
Part 2. LIVES --
Part 3. DESIGNS --
Part 4. PRAGMATICS --
Part 5. PRACTICAL COMPLETION --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
References --
Index
Summary:What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict, and the personal commitments that feed these acts of creativity. Architects rethinks "creativity," demonstrating how it happens in everyday practice. It highlights how the pursuit of good architecture, relates to the pursuit of a good life in intimate and individually specific ways. And it reveals the surprising and routine social negotiations through which designs and buildings are actually made.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501738500
9783110651980
9783110610765
9783110664232
9783110610130
9783110606485
DOI:10.1515/9781501738500?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Yarrow.