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Down detour road : an architect in search of practice /
"This manifesto-memoir comes none too soon to rescue Architecture from the trash bin of postmodernism. Lucid, intelligent, and visionary, this small book is destined to become a guide for 21st century architects. Cesal reconnects his profession to the humanities from which it is becoming estran...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Reflections from detour road -- The aimless architect -- The case for empowerment -- Where we get power (kings, not sorcerers) -- Camping in the front yard -- The financial architect (or, A brief economic history of architecture) -- Great architecture is like pulling teeth -- The value architect -- Horse apples and cow pies -- The risk architect -- I'm an architect -- The paid architect -- The best idea in history -- The idea architect -- The basis of all things -- The knowing architect -- You're an architect, aren't you? -- The named architect -- How to become a famous architect -- The citizen architect -- How to make a golf course "green" -- The green architect -- The difference between hookers and architects -- The sober architect (or, A doctor, a lawyer, and an architect walk into a bar) -- Epilogue: Finding love at a hardware store. | |
| 520 | |a "This manifesto-memoir comes none too soon to rescue Architecture from the trash bin of postmodernism. Lucid, intelligent, and visionary, this small book is destined to become a guide for 21st century architects. Cesal reconnects his profession to the humanities from which it is becoming estranged, and to the economy, culture, and technology of an America radically different from the one built by previous generations. This tract cuts the knot of the confounding jumble all humanities and academic disciplines face, with the swift blade of an Emerson or de Tocqueville. And let me tell you: a real human being wrote this, he breathes warmly from every page."--Andrei Codrescu, author of The Poetry Lesson -- | ||
| 520 | |a "Down Detour Road is an essential roadmap to the present architectural scene and the challenges that it faces. With a tragicomic eye, Eric Cesal exposes the hubris that has led so much architectural education and practice into an impotent cul-de-sac, and succinctly presents a pragmatic and hopeful way out." --Jeremy Till, Dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, and author of Architecture Depends -- | ||
| 520 | |a As the world redesigns and rebuilds in the face of economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work. What does this say about the value of architecture? That is the question that architect Eric Cesal confronted as he finished graduate school at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. Down Detour Road is his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision of architecture. -- | ||
| 520 | |a Like many architects of his generation, Cesal confronts a cold reality. Architects may assure each other of their own importance, but society has come to view architecture as a luxury it can do without. For Cesal, this recognition becomes an occasion to rethink architecture and its value from the very core. He argues that the times demand a new architecture, an empowered architecture that is useful and relevant. New architectural values emerge as our cultural values shift: from high risks to safe bets, from strong portfolios to strong communities, and from clean lines to clean energy. -- | ||
| 520 | |a This is not a book about how to run a firm or a profession; it doesn't predict the future of architectural form or aesthetics. It is a personal story--and in many ways a generational one: a story that follows its author on a winding detour across the country, around the profession, and into a new architectural reality. --Book Jacket. | ||
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