Architects : portraits of a practice /
This book portrays the lives and work of ten architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their work environment, Yarrow's book is narrative driven, full of stories of anxiety, exhilaration,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | This book portrays the lives and work of ten architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their work environment, Yarrow's book is narrative driven, full of stories of anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict and its resolution, and the many personal commitments that propel the acts of creativity essential to good architecture and design. Taking up recent calls to "personalize the expert," the book contains insights into architectural and design practice, situating these in relation to broader themes including creativity, ethical self-formation and organizational practice. Through ethnographic descriptions of everyday working life, the book reveals the complex and contradictory imperatives that shape architectural design, and highlights the negotiations involved in efforts to resolve these. These accounts demonstrate how ideas are imaginatively produced through shifting configurations of people, materials, tools and places. Rather than deconstructing understandings of creative individuality, the account traces how this is understood and enacted through practices that are shaped by, even as they question the ideal. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501738494 1501738496 |