Kendra Schank Smith, Albert Smith

Building the Architect's Character (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations in Traits

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An understanding of architects' character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. Through the analogies and metaphors found in Greek myth, Building the Architect's Character: Explorations in Traits describes the elusive, hard-to-define characteristics of architects to engage the dilemmas of a changing architectural landscape. A discussion of such subjects as; defining, imaging, persuading, and fabricating will reveal representational meaning useful for understandings architects' character. This book examines traditional and archetypal characteristics of the successful architect to ask if they remain relevant today. Includes 70 black and white images.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317199175
• Artikelnr.: 50530369

Autorenporträt

Kendra Schank Smith is a Professor of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, Canada. With a Ph.D. in architecture from Georgia Tech, she has written on representation, urbanism, and education, and has published two books on architectural sketches. She is the co-author of Developing Your Design Process: Six Key Concepts for Studio.

Albert C. Smith is an Associate Professor of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, Canada. He holds a Ph.D., from Georgia Tech, in architecture with an interest in representation. Smith is the author of Architectural Model as Machine and co-author of Developing Your Design Process: Six Key Concepts for Studio.