Down Detour Road An Architect in Search of Practice

Name: Down Detour Road An Architect in Search of Practice
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ISBN: 9780262014618

ISBN-10: 0262014610

ISBN-13: 9780262014618

Edition: 2010

Authors: Eric J. Cesal

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I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged me upon the world. -from Down Detour Road What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economic and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work? This is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.55" wide x 7.95" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Reflections from Detour Road



The Aimless Architect



The Case for Empowerment



Where We Get Power (Kings, Not Sorcerers)



Camping in the Front Yard



The Financial Architect (or, A Brief Economic History of Architecture)



Great Architecture is Like Pulling Teeth



The Value Architect



Horse Apples and Cow Pies



The Risk Architect



I'm an Architect



The Paid Architect



The Best Idea in History



The Idea Architect



The Basis of All Things



The Knowing Architect



You're an Architect, Aren't You?



The Named Architect



How to Become a Famous Architect



The Citizen Architect



How to Make a Golf Course "Green"



The Green Architect



The Difference between Hookers and Architects



The Sober Architect (or, A Doctor, a Lawyer, and an Architect Walk into a Bar)



Epilogue: Finding Love at a Hardware Store


Notes