De Graaf Reinier Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession 9780674241466

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Автор: De Graaf Reinier
Название: Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
ISBN: 9780674241466
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Классификация:

История искусств / художественные и оформительские стили

Архитектура

Теория архитектуры

Архитектурный облик и дизайн

Архитектура: професиональная деятельность

История архитектуры

Материальная культура

Политика и политический строй

Общественное управление

ISBN-10: 0674241460
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 528
Вес: 0.89 кг.
Дата издания: 15.10.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 70 illus.
Размер: 234 x 157 x 32
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: The complex nature of a simple profession
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year

Sharp, revealing, funny.
--The Guardian

An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.
--The Economist

Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof turns this fiction on its head, offering a candid account of what its really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to the demolished hopes of postwar social housing in New York and St. Louis. We meet ambitious oligarchs, developers for whom architecture is nothing more than an investment, and layers of bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architects idea and the chance of its execution.

This is a book about power, money and influence, and architectures complete lack of any of them... Witty, insightful and funny, it is a (sometimes painful) dissection of a profession that thinks it is still in control.
--Financial Times

This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years.
--Architects Journal

Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, De Graaf Reinier