Description
The new variation of an crucial textual content provides an informative, enticing view of the architectural occupation from training thru follow.
Since 1985, Architect? has been an crucial textual content for aspiring architects, providing the most productive fundamental information to the occupation to be had. This 3rd variation has been considerably revised and rewritten, with new subject matter masking the recent traits in architectural and development applied sciences, virtual methodologies, new spaces of focal point in educating and follow, evolving aesthetic philosophies, sustainability and inexperienced structure, and choices to standard follow.
Architect? tells the interior tale of architectural training and follow; it’s practical, unvarnished, and insightful. Bankruptcy 1 asks “Why Be an Architect?” and Bankruptcy 2 provides purposes “Why To not Be an Architect.” After this provocative starting, Architect? is going on to provide an explanation for and critique architectural training, masking admission, stage and curriculum sorts, and workload in addition to such Submit-stage choices as internship, educating, and paintings in similar fields. It provides an in depth dialogue of professors and practitioners and the “-isms” and “-ologies” so much widely wide-spread in educating and practising structure. It explains how an architect works and will get paintings, and describes architectural services and products from preliminary shopper touch to development oversight. The brand new variation additionally features a beneficiant choice of drawings and cartoons from the creator’s Washington Submit column, “Shaping the Town,” providing teachable moments wittily in image shape.
The creator, Roger Lewis, has taught, practiced, and written broadly approximately structure for a few years. In Architect? he explains―for college kids, professors, practitioners, or even potential shoppers―how architects assume and paintings and what they care approximately as they try to make the constructed surroundings extra commodious, extra gorgeous, and extra sustainable.
