How to be a Happy Architect
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 05:59 | by Bauman Lyons
Contemporary architecture is practiced against the backdrop of continuous rapid change and the consequent multiple systems of disconnections it creates. Architects have the capacity to think on a variety of scales and handle complex data. We are problem solvers with a regard foraesthetics, and as such we have a vital contribution to make to the job of stitching together multiple disconnections.
The essays in this book explore private choices over which we have an influence; the state of our profession, over which we should exercise more influence; and the fundamental issue of for whom we choose to work, which is where our influence should be exercised to its utmost but seldom is.