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Building the architect's character : explorations in traits

Title
Building the architect's character : explorations in traits / Kendra Schank Smith and Albert C. Smith.
ISBN
1138675369
1315560747
1317199162
1317199170
1317199189
9781138675360
9781315560748
9781317199168
9781317199175
9781317199182
1138675377
9781138675360
9781138675377
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"An understanding of architects' character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility, resourcefulness, and visionary and strategic thinking. Characteristics such as these describe a successful person. Architects also possess these traits, but they have additional skills specifically valuable for the profession. These will include the ability to question the use of digital media, new materials, processes, and methods to convey meaning in architectural form. Although not exhaustive, a discussion of such subjects as; defining, imaging, persuading, and fabricating will reveal representational meaning useful for the development of an understanding of architects' character. Through the analogies and metaphors found in Greek myth, the book describes the elusive, hard-to-define characteristics of architects to engage the dilemmas of a changing architectural landscape. Building the Architect's Character: Explorations in Traits examines traditional and archetypal characteristics of the successful architect to ask if they remain relevant today."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Smith, Kendra Schank. Building the architect's character. New York : Routledge, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Contents
Defining
Imaging
Transforming, Transitioning, Translating
Persuading
Fabricating.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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