Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession [Audiobook] download free by Reinier De Graaf
- Listen audiobook: Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
- Author: Reinier De Graaf
- Release date: 2017/1/25
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780674976108
- Rating: 7.81 of 10
- Votes: 571
- Review by: Dorothy Coward
- Review rating: 8.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 5H18M48S in 256 kbps (84 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MOD, OPUS, WAV, MP3, WMA Lossless, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4 (compression AZW, RAR, ARJ, XZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 420
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M49S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect.Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from suburban New York to the rubble of northern Iraq, from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to garbage-strewn wastelands that represent the demolished hopes of postwar social housing. We meet oligarchs determined to translate ambitions into concrete and steel, developers for whom architecture is mere investment, and the layers of politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architectural idea and the chance of its execution.Four Walls and a Roof tells the story of a profession buffeted by external forces that determine-at least as much as individual inspiration-what architects design. Perhaps the most important myth debunked is success itself. To achieve anything, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest. Together, architects, developers, politicians, and consultants form an improvised world of contest and compromise that none alone can control.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs, Urban & Municipal Planning, Architecture, Individual Architects & Architectural Firms, Architecture: Professional Practice, History Of Architecture
- Download servers: Sync.com, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrent, MEGA, FreakShare, Uploaded, Localhostr. Compressed in AZW, RAR, ARJ, XZ, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.91 USD
- Dimensions: 160x230x40.64mm
- Weight: 861.83g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
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