Down Detour Road
An Architect in Search of Practice
$44.29
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2010
Summary
A young architect’s search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days and I was feeling sentimental about the warm confines of the studio which had unceremoniously discharged …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262014618 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262014610 |
| Author: | Eric J. Cesal |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Down Detour Road |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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This book is highly unusual for an architecture opus: it is well written, it is funny, and it is wise in so many ways. I literally ‘couldn’t put it down,’ as the old book review-saw goes, and read it in one sitting…Cesal finds useful parables for architects and their predicament in the most unusual places: the relationship of bartenders to bar owners, how prostitutes are and are not like architects, and how a good architect is like a fire extinguisher…Cesal offers a unique, refreshing take on the profession.
– Michael Crosbie * Architectural Record *About The Author
Eric J. Cesal
Eric J. Cesal holds master’s degrees in business administration, construction management, and architecture from Washington University in St. Louis. He is now living in Port-au-Prince, managing and coordinating Architecture for Humanity’s design and reconstruction initiatives in Haiti.
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