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Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice

Mastery, innovation and creativity you can use in developing your practice.

Item #: 165-2424-05
ISBN: 0-470-09242-4
ISBN13: 978-0-470-09242-2
Author: Leon Van Schaik
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback

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It is easy for even the most accomplished of designers to lose sight of their higher creative goals, once they are in ensconced in practice and burdened by the everyday concerns of running an office and overseeing complex projects. However, it is essential for any architect aspiring to achieve a mastery of their profession to retain an ongoing awareness and understanding of their creative development. This book is a touchstone for architects who want to get back to a creative form of practice, in order to continue progressing and evolving their work.

Mastering Architecture draws on the research of approximately fifty architects who have taken a close look at the nature of their own mastery. This research into mastery reveals things that every practitioner should know about their creative practice – things which most architects are only aware of at an intuitive level. The book flags up personal attributes, such as stamina, creative energy and intellectual capital, which are intrinsic to dynamic practice. It also suggests ways in which practitioners can self-curate their positions within the triangle of their creativity, evolving not only the cultural structure of their profession but the wider world in which they operate. 248 pp.

Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice - Table of Contents:

Introduction: Mastering Architecture – Becoming a Creative Practitioner
Zone 1: The Individual in Mastery – The Natural History of the Creative Practitioner
- Antwerp
- Austin
- Brisbane
- Christchurch
- Hobart
- Kuala Lumpur
- London
- Melbourne
- New York
- Perth
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Scotland, Tokyo and London
- Ljubljana and Melbournec
Zone 2: The Groups in Mastering
- Self-Curating Collectives
- Fostering Informal Associations
- Partnerships for Life and Practice
- Migrating Contexts
- Establishing Poles
- Firms that sustain innovation from within
Zone 3: Thwarted Mastery
- Overshadowing
- Technical Over-Refinement
- Forgetting Cultural Capital
- Confusing the Knowledge Base
- Failing to Elevate Innovations into a Metropolitan Discourse
Zone 4: Encouraging Mastery and Innovation
- Encouraging Mastery and Innovation
- Collective Environments that Encourage
- Regional and Provincial Environments that Encourage
- Metropolitan Environments that Encourage
Zone 5: Self-Curationas a Portal from Mastery to Creative Innovation
- Wood Marsh and Resistance
- Leon van Schaik and the Ideogram Approach
- The Melbourne Concourse of Architecture
Reflection
Useful Tips
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index

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