Architects: Portraits of a Practice by Yarrow, Thomas

Architects: Portraits of a Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501738494)

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Architects: Portraits of a Practice by Yarrow, Thomas

Architects: Portraits of a Practice

$18.95
Architects: Portraits of a Practice by Yarrow, Thomas

Architects: Portraits of a Practice

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Thomas Yarrow
ISBN-10: 1501738496
ISBN-13: 9781501738494
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2019
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Thomas Yarrow
By Thomas Yarrow
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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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