| Description |
xxxv, 380 pages : portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
What is it about Smithsons? / Charles Rattray -- The Archigram group / Paul Davies -- Boyarsky and the Architectural Association / David Dunster -- Fame and the changing role of drawing / Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke -- Switzerland : Botta : fame and scale / Rob Wilson -- Italy : Rossi : fame and familiarity / Andrew Peckham -- The Netherlands : Koolhaas and the profession at play / Hans van der Heijden -- Germany : (un)edited architecture : Wettbewerbe Aktuell / Torsten Schmiedeknecht -- Spain : the fame game / Javier Sánchez Merina and Halldóra Arnadóttir -- USA : Ground Zero : 1,776 ft into thin air / Markus Miessen -- Editors : Architectural design in the 1970s and 1980s / Ryan McCrudden and Mat Witts -- It's not about the work! / Laura Iloniemi -- All the kings men ; All the kings men and a few women / Judith Farren-Bradley -- The portraits / Julie Cook and Paul Davies -- Art, architecture, artists and architects / Edward Winters -- A-list architects / Torsten Schmiedeknecht -- The fall and rise of Craig Ellwood / Paul Davies -- Situating Dalibor Vesely / Richard Patterson -- The psyche of the unit master / Carlos Villanueva Brandt -- The psyche of a depressed and disappointed unit master / Jonathan Harris -- Seeking Peter Zumthor / Kit Allsopp -- The chapter according to St John / James Soane |
| Summary |
"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, the 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architects.
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Architecture.
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Architecture and fame.
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| Author |
Davies, Paul.
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Schmiedeknecht, Torsten.
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Cook, Julie.
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| LC no. |
00002856 |
| ISBN |
075065967X paperback |
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