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| AN ARCHITECT'S GUIDE TO FAME
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 A Collection of Essays on why they got Famous and You didn't
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Edited By
Paul Davies, BA (Hons) Dip Arch., Senior Lecturer in Architecture, South Bank University, London, UK.
Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Dip Arch., M. Arch, Lecturer, School of Architecture and Building Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK
Description
This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous.
In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book examines the mechanisms
by which architects seek publicity and manage to establish themselves and their work ahead of their colleagues. Through the essays of
specialist contributors, this book enables the reader to understand the complex relationship between what they see as the built environment
and the unwritten stories behind how it came about.
Audience
Academics and students in architecture and history of architecture, and professional architects. Professionals, students and academics
in related areas - design, urban design, interior design, history of art, etc.
Contents
Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
Part I Paper Architecture; What is it about the Smithsons?; The Archigram Group; Boyarsky
and the Architectural Association; Fame and the Changing Role of Drawing; Part II Bricks and Mortar; Switzerland – Botta: Fame and Scale;
Italy – Rossi: Fame and Familiarity; The Netherlands – Koolhaas and the Profession at Play; Germany – (Un)edited Architecture; Wettbewerbe
Aktuell; Spain – The Fame Game; USA – Ground Zero: 1,776 ft into Thin Air; Part III Conduits; Editors – Architectural Design in the
1970s and 1980s; It?s not About the Work!; All The Kings Men; All The Kings Men and a Few Women; Part IV Portraits; The Portraits; Art,
Architecture, Artists and Architects; A-List Architects; The Fall and Rise of Craig Ellwood; Situating Dalibor Vesely; The Psyche of
the Unit Master; The Psyche of a Depressed and Disappointed Unit Master; Seeking Peter Zumthor; Kit Allsopp; The Chapter According to
St John
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 192 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5967-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5967-X
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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