TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Graaf,Reinier
TI  - Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession 
SN  - 9780674982758
AV  - NA1995 .G69 2017eb
U1  - 720 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Architectural practice
KW  - Architecture
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Authority --; 1. I Will Learn You Architecture! --; 2. More Specifically, Everything! --; 3. Let Me Finish! --; 4. Four Walls and a Roof --; II. Default by Design --; 5. Bloody Fools! The Story of Pimlico School, 1970–2010 --; 6. Architektur ohne Eigenschaften --; 7. Neufert: The Exceptional Pursuit of the Norm --; 8. Reference without a Source: The Appeal of Atlanta Airport --; 9. The Inevitable Box --; III. Found Causes --; 10. Spaceship Earth --; 11. Mies en Scène --; 12. Intruders: How Smart Technology Infiltrates Architecture --; 13. “Public” Space --; 14. From CIAM to Cyberspace: Architecture and the Community --; 15. With the Masses: The Architecture of Participation --; IV. Trial and Error --; 16. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part One --; 17. London --; 18. How Is Denmark? --; 19. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part Two --; 20. Facing the Facts --; 21. Naukograd --; 22. A Spanish Tender --; 23. On Hold --; V. Powers That Be --; 24. After the End of History --; 25. The Other Truth --; 26. Socialist in Content, Realist in Form --; 27. The Descendant: A Conversation with Xenia Adjoubei, Nikita Khrushchev’s Great-Granddaughter --; 28. Undesirable Work Styles --; 29. A Benevolent Dictator with Taste --; 30. Royal Approval --; 31. His Architect --; 32. A Property Developer for President --; VI. Megalopoli(tic)s --; 33. A Faustian Bargain --; 34. Amanhã --; 35. Smart Cities of the Future --; 36. The Sum of All Isms --; 37. Dear Mr. Barber --; 38. At Your Service: Ten Steps to Becoming a Successful Urban Consultant --; 39. Rankings --; VII. Progress --; 40. Coup de Grâce: Pruitt-Igoe Revisited --; 41. The Century That Never Happened --; 42. In Memoriam --; 43. The Captive Globe --; 44. Remains of a Brave New World --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Chapters Previously Published; restricted access
N2  - Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest
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