Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession (The MIT Press)

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The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.

Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiring architects, offering the most efficient basic guide to the profession to be had. This third edition has been substantially revised and rewritten, with new material covering the contemporary developments in architectural and construction technologies, digital methodologies, new areas of focal point in teaching and practice, evolving aesthetic philosophies, sustainability and green architecture, and alternatives to traditional practice.

Architect? tells the inside story of architectural education and practice; it is realistic, unvarnished, and insightful. Chapter 1 asks “Why Be an Architect?” and chapter 2 offers reasons “Why Not to Be an Architect.” After this provocative beginning, Architect? goes on to give an explanation for and critique architectural education, covering admission, degree and curriculum types, and workload in addition to such post-degree options as internship, teaching, and work in related fields. It offers a detailed discussion of professors and practitioners and the “-isms” and “-ologies” most prevalent in teaching and practicing architecture. It explains how an architect works and gets work, and describes architectural products and services from initial client contact to construction oversight. The new edition also includes a generous number of drawings and cartoons from the writer’s Washington Post column, “Shaping the City,” offering teachable moments wittily in graphic form.

The writer, Roger Lewis, has taught, practiced, and written extensively about architecture for a few years. In Architect? he explains — for students, professors, practitioners, and even prospective clients — how architects think and work and what they care about as they strive to make the built environment more commodious, more beautiful, and more sustainable.

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