Architects : Portraits of a Practice.

Architects -- Contents -- Before the Beginning -- Part 1 The Office -- Arrival -- Spaces Between -- Understanding Architecture -- A Particular Kind of Practice -- Openings -- Listen: First Impressions of the Office -- Part 2 Lives -- Between Person and Profession -- Questions of Vocation -- Listen: The Greedy Profession -- Personal Vision -- Listen: Myths of Origin -- Designing and Making -- Building Friendship -- Starting to Doubt -- Reflection: Architectural Lives -- Part 3 Designs -- A Feel for Place -- Sites of Design -- Dripping with History -- Site Stories -- Between Reality and Possibility -- Between Intuition and Exploration -- Acts of Design -- Design Tools -- Digital Romantics -- Between Architect and Client -- Listen: Channeling or Imposing Ideas? -- Between One and One Another -- Friends, Colleagues, Competitors -- Deadlines -- Magic Moments -- Listen: Creative Time -- Reflection: Creativity and Its Limits -- Interlude: Two Kinds of Uncertainty -- Listen: Angst in Architecture -- Part 4 Pragmatics -- Petrified Drawing -- Between Concept and Plan -- Coming into Focus -- Listen: Cost and Design -- Where Knowledge Meets -- Problem Solving -- Formality and Informality -- At the Limits of the Contract -- Disentanglement -- Safe Hands -- Professionalism -- Listen: Control and Creativity -- Time Frame -- Rhythms of Work -- Listen: Blocked -- Reflection: Making Things as They Are -- Part 5 Practical Completion -- Knowledge at Its Limits -- Architectural Expertise -- Everyday Possibilities -- Coda: An Argument for Description -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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