Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
- ISBN-10
- 0674982762
- ISBN-13
- 9780674982765
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-25
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Reinier de Graaf
Description
Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.
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