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Constructing the Architect: An Introduction to Design, Research, Planning, and Education book cover

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Constructing the Architect An Introduction to Design, Research, Planning, and Education

By Leonard R. Bachman Copyright 2019
210 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a disciplinary and professional process, an institution of society, and a career of learning and mastery. In doing so, it offers a lens into the architecture of architecture. Mapping architecture as a coherent whole, Leonard Bachman shows that the... Read more

List of Illustrations  Foreword Michelangelo Sabatini  Preface: The Architecture of Architecture  Acknowledgments  Part 1: The Architecture of Architecture  1. Architecture After the Machine Age  2. Architecture as a Social Construct 3. Inquiry and Agency  Part 2: Creating New Wisdom Through Essential Transformations  4. Design Inquiry: Unique Solutions to Unique Situations  5. Research Inquiry in Architecture  Part 3: Connective Configurations: The Application of Existing Knowledge to Practical Use  6. Forensic Inquiry: Precedent, Programming, Planning, and Strategy  7. Educational Inquiry  Coda: Inquiry in Motion  8. Interaction: Four Inquiries in Motion  Index

Biography

Leonard R. Bachman is Professor of Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, USA. He is the author of Two Spheres: Physical and Strategic Design in Architecture, also published by Routledge.

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