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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
Four walls and a roof
:
the complex nature of a simple profession
Enthält:
I. Authority: I will learn you architecture! -- More specifically, everything -- Let me finish! -- Four walls and a roof -- II. Default by design: Bloody fools! -- Architektur ohne eigenschaften -- Neufert -- Reference without a source -- The inevitable box -- III. Found causes: Spaceship earth -- Mies en scene -- Intruders -- "Public" space -- From CIAM to cyberspace -- With the masses -- IV. Trial and error: Ex nihilo nihil fit: part one -- How is Denmark? -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: part two -- Facing the facts -- Naukograd -- A Spanish tender -- On hold -- V. Powers that be: After the end of history -- The other truth -- Socialist in form, realist in content -- The descendant -- Undesirable workstyles -- A benevolent dictator with taste -- Royal approval -- His architect -- A property developer for president -- VI. Megalopoli(tic)s: A Faustian bargain -- Ama?ha -- Smart cities of the future -- The sum of all -isms -- Dear Mr. Barber -- At your service -- Rankings -- VII. Progress: Coup de grace -- The century that never happened -- In memoriam: a photo essay -- The captive globe -- Remains of a brave new world
Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-505)
Beschreibung:
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, buffeted by external forces that make a mockery of any pretense to visionary authority. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences in the field to reveal the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots. He takes us 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. He introduces us to histories of modern architecture that determine--at least as much as individual inspiration--what architects design. And he questions the hubris of those who believe they are the solution to the overwhelming problems of booming megacities. Perhaps the most important myth de Graaf debunks is success itself. To achieve anything, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest. Together, he shows, architects, developers, politicians, and consultants form an improvised world of conflict and compromise that none alone can control.--
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, buffeted by external forces that make a mockery of any pretense to visionary authority. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences in the field to reveal the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots. He takes us 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. He introduces us to histories of modern architecture that determine--at least as much as individual inspiration--what architects design. And he questions the hubris of those who believe they are the solution to the overwhelming problems of booming megacities. Perhaps the most important myth de Graaf debunks is success itself. To achieve anything, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest. Together, he shows, architects, developers, politicians, and consultants form an improvised world of conflict and compromise that none alone can control.--