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Down detour road [electronic resource] : an architect in search of practice / Eric J. Cesal.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.Description: ix, 227 p. : illOther title:
  • Down Detour Rd [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.23 22
LOC classification:
  • NA1995 .C42 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Reflections from detour road -- The aimless architect -- The case for empowerment -- Where we get power (kings, not sorcerers) -- Camping in the front yard -- The financial architect (or, A brief economic history of architecture) -- Great architecture is like pulling teeth -- The value architect -- Horse apples and cow pies -- The risk architect -- I'm an architect -- The paid architect -- The best idea in history -- The idea architect -- The basis of all things -- The knowing architect -- You're an architect, aren't you? -- The named architect -- How to become a famous architect -- The citizen architect -- How to make a golf course "green" -- The green architect -- The difference between hookers and architects -- The sober architect (or, A doctor, a lawyer, and an architect walk into a bar) -- Epilogue: Finding love at a hardware store.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 720.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reflections from detour road -- The aimless architect -- The case for empowerment -- Where we get power (kings, not sorcerers) -- Camping in the front yard -- The financial architect (or, A brief economic history of architecture) -- Great architecture is like pulling teeth -- The value architect -- Horse apples and cow pies -- The risk architect -- I'm an architect -- The paid architect -- The best idea in history -- The idea architect -- The basis of all things -- The knowing architect -- You're an architect, aren't you? -- The named architect -- How to become a famous architect -- The citizen architect -- How to make a golf course "green" -- The green architect -- The difference between hookers and architects -- The sober architect (or, A doctor, a lawyer, and an architect walk into a bar) -- Epilogue: Finding love at a hardware store.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.