Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture
by Hyde, Rory
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "d…
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- Full title :Future Practice : Conversations from the Edge of Architecture.
Summary
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "double agent," or the "strategic designer," this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to desig.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781136230400, 1136230408
- oclc:ocn818113644
- LC Classification:NA1996
- Dewey Decimal:720.23
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Rory Hyde; Content; Foreword: Dan Hill; Introduction; The Massive Changer; The Civic Entrepreneur; The Whole-Earth Architect; The Double Agent; The Historian of the Present; The Urban Activist; The Contractual Innovator; The Near Future Inventor; The Strategic Designer; The Management Thinkers; The Community Enabler; The New Amsterdam School Dus; The Professional Generalist; The Architect as Public Intellectual; The Educator of Excess; The Editor of the Beyond; The Environmental Medic; Endnotes; Image credits; Contributor biographies; Index; Imprint page and credits
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