1st Edition

Building the Architect's Character Explorations in Traits

By Kendra Schank Smith, Albert Smith Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical behavior, being well educated and possessing a life-long love of learning, flexibility, resourcefulness, and visionary and strategic thinking. Characteristics such as these describe a successful... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Defining

Chapter 2: Imaging

Chapter 3: Transforming, Transitioning, Translating

Chapter 4: Persuading

Chapter 5: Fabricating

Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Kendra Schank Smith is a Professor of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, Canada. With a Ph.D. in architecture from Georgia Tech, she has written on representation, urbanism, and education, and has published two books on architectural sketches. She is the co-author of Developing Your Design Process: Six Key Concepts for Studio.

Albert C. Smith is an Associate Professor of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, Canada. He holds a Ph.D., from Georgia Tech, in architecture with an interest in representation. Smith is the author of Architectural Model as Machine and co-author of Developing Your Design Process: Six Key Concepts for Studio.