| Architects: Portraits of a Practice Contributor(s): Yarrow, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501738496 ISBN-13: 9781501738494 Publisher: Cornell University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2019 Click for more in this series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 720.922 |
| LCCN: 2019008031 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.89 lbs) 300 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict, and the personal commitments that feed these acts of creativity. Architects rethinks "creativity," demonstrating how it happens in everyday practice. It highlights how the pursuit of good architecture, relates to the pursuit of a good life in intimate and individually specific ways. And it reveals the surprising and routine social negotiations through which designs and buildings are actually made. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yarrow, Thomas: - Thomas Yarrow is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the social life of expertise. He is particularly interested in everyday interactions through which professional knowledge is produced, the personal and ideological commitments that propel this work, and the routine ethical dilemmas that arise. For Architects, Yarrow turned his attention to the lives and work of ten architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop, an architectural firm in the Cotswolds, UK. Yarrow is also the author of Development Beyond Politics, and the co-author of Detachment, Differentiating Development, and Archaeology and Anthropology. |
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