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  1. Architects
    portraits of a practice
    Autor*in: Yarrow, Thomas
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    "This book portrays the lives and work of 10 architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their work environment, Yarrow's book is narrative... mehr

    Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Bibliothek
    NA997 Yarr2019
    keine Ausleihe von Bänden, nur Papierkopien werden versandt
    HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Bibliothek
    ZH 2730 040
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    T 19 B 2075
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "This book portrays the lives and work of 10 architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their work environment, Yarrow's book is narrative driven, full of stories of anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict and its resolution, and the many personal commitments that propel the acts of creativity essential to good architecture and design. Taking up recent calls to "personalise the expert," the book contains insights into architectural and design practice, situating these in relation to broader themes including creativity, ethical self-formation and organisational practice. Through ethnographic descriptions of everyday working life, the book reveals the complex and contradictory imperatives that shape architectural design, and highlights the negotiations involved in efforts to resolve these. These accounts demonstrate how ideas are imaginatively produced through shifting configurations of people, materials, tools and places. Rather than deconstructing understandings of creative individuality, the account traces how this is understood and enacted through practices that are shaped by, even as they question the ideal"--

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781501738494; 9781501738500; 9781501738517
    RVK Klassifikation: ZH 2730
    Schriftenreihe: Expertise
    Schlagworte: Architectural firms; Architectural practice; Architects
    Umfang: ix, 283 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index