Architecture

Architecture

The Story of Practice

By Dana Cuff
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Although architecture is the fastest-growing profession in America, its private context remains shrouded in myth. In this book, Dana Cuff delves into the architect's everyday work world to uncover an intricate social art of design. The result is a new portrait of the profession that sheds light on what it means to become an architect, how design problems are construed and resolved, how clients and architects negotiate, and how design excellence is achieved.

Hardcover

Out of Print ISBN: 9780262031752 320 pp. | 7 in x 9.75 in

Paperback

Out of Print ISBN: 9780262531122 320 pp. | 7 in x 9.75 in

Authors

Dana Cuff

Dana Cuff is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she is also Director and Founder of cityLAB. She is a leader of the Urban Humanities Initiative, a UCLA program sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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  • Cuff has produced a remarkable piece of work: thorough in its coverage of the existing literature; attentive to several very important issues of contemporary practice; rich in its description of what it feels like to work in the field. There is no other book like it.

    Roger Gutman

    Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, and School of Architecture, Princeton University

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