Four Walls and a Roof : : The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession / / Reinier de Graaf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: de Graaf, Reinier,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) :; 70 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Authority --; 1. I Will Learn You Architecture! --; 2. More Specifically, Everything! --; 3. Let Me Finish! --; 4. Four Walls and a Roof --; II. Default by Design --; 5. Bloody Fools! The Story of Pimlico School, 1970–2010 --; 6. Architektur ohne Eigenschaften --; 7. Neufert: The Exceptional Pursuit of the Norm --; 8. Reference without a Source: The Appeal of Atlanta Airport --; 9. The Inevitable Box --; III. Found Causes --; 10. Spaceship Earth --; 11. Mies en Scène --; 12. Intruders: How Smart Technology Infiltrates Architecture --; 13. “Public” Space --; 14. From CIAM to Cyberspace: Architecture and the Community --; 15. With the Masses: The Architecture of Participation --; IV. Trial and Error --; 16. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part One --; 17. London --; 18. How Is Denmark? --; 19. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part Two --; 20. Facing the Facts --; 21. Naukograd --; 22. A Spanish Tender --; 23. On Hold --; V. Powers That Be --; 24. After the End of History --; 25. The Other Truth --; 26. Socialist in Content, Realist in Form --; 27. The Descendant: A Conversation with Xenia Adjoubei, Nikita Khrushchev’s Great-Granddaughter --; 28. Undesirable Work Styles --; 29. A Benevolent Dictator with Taste --; 30. Royal Approval --; 31. His Architect --; 32. A Property Developer for President --; VI. Megalopoli(tic)s --; 33. A Faustian Bargain --; 34. Amanhã --; 35. Smart Cities of the Future --; 36. The Sum of All Isms --; 37. Dear Mr. Barber --; 38. At Your Service: Ten Steps to Becoming a Successful Urban Consultant --; 39. Rankings --; VII. Progress --; 40. Coup de Grâce: Pruitt-Igoe Revisited --; 41. The Century That Never Happened --; 42. In Memoriam --; 43. The Captive Globe --; 44. Remains of a Brave New World --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Chapters Previously Published
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982758; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982758
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Reinier de Graaf.

Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.