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

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.

Table of Contents

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