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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.
Architectural practice. --- Architecture. --- 72.01 --- Architectuur (kritiek) --- Architectuurkritiek --- Architecture --- Architectural practice --- Pratique --- 72.071 --- Architectuurtheorie ; over de architectuurpraktijk --- De Graaf, Reinier ; partner bij OMA --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectenberoep --- Sociology of occupations --- architects --- architecture [discipline] --- Architecte - profession --- Ecrit d'architecte --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Pratique. --- 72:349 --- 72.039 --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 72.01 Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.01 Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architect and client --- Architectural services --- Design and construction --- Practice --- Vocational guidance
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For over 30 years Architecture in the Netherlands has provided an indispensable overview of Dutch architecture for everyone with a professional or more general interest in the subject. The Yearbook is the international showcase for Dutch architecture. The three editors select special projects that have been completed in the preceding year and describe the most important developments that influence Dutch architecture, paying particular attention to new types of housing, the circular economy, the rediscovery of the periphery and the public role of architecture in times of privatization. The Yearbook editors are Kirsten Hannema (freelance architecture critic for de Volkskrant, Elsevier Juist and ArchitectuurNL), Robert-Jan de Kort (architect and co-founder of the De Kort Van Schaik architecture and urbanism studio) and Lara Schrijver (Professor of Architecture at the University of Antwerp and DAAD guest lecturer at the Dessau Institute of Architecture in 2013/14). Plus a guest essay by architect Reinier de Graaf (OMA) and urban planner Jacqueline Tellinga.
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