Down detour road
Subtitle: an architect in search of practice
By: Eric J. Cesal.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262014618
Subjects: Architectural practice
Other titles: Architect in search of practice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Reflections from detour road; title: The aimless architect; title: The case for empowerment; title: Where we get power (kings, not sorcerers); title: Camping in the front yard; title: The financial architect (or, a brief economic history of architecture); title: Great architecture is like pulling teeth; title: The value architect; title: Horse apples and cow pies; title: The risk architect; title: I'm an architect; title: The paid architect; title: The best idea in history; title: The idea architect; title: The basis of all things; title: The knowing architect; title: You're an architect, aren't you?; title: The named architect; title: How to become a famous architect; title: The citizen architect; title: How to make a golf course "green"; title: The green architect; title: The difference between hookers and architects; title: The sober architect (or, a doctor, a lawyer and an architect walk into a bar...); title: Epilogue. Finding love at a hardware store.