Architects : portraits of a practice / by Thomas Yarrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yarrow, Thomas, 1977- author.

Series:

Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Expertise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millar Howard Workshop.

Architectural firms--England--Stroud.

Architectural firms.

Architectural practice--England--Stroud.

Architectural practice.

Architects--Professional relationships--England--Stroud.

Architects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-3850-X

OCLC:

1088602400