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Architects: Portraits of a Practice

By Thomas Yarrow

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501738500, 150173850X
Google Books ID
SDmUDwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14525768 bytes)
Series
Cornell scholarship online
Pages
300\296
Time added
2020-12-08 13:46:04

Description

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.

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