Wentworth
Institute of Technology
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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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.