Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice is an essential guide for every architect that is inspiring to achieve a mastery of their profession, while also retaining an ongoing awareness and understanding of their creative development. Drawing upon the research of approximately 50 architects who've taken a very close look at the nature of their own profession, this book is a refreshing look at things that every practitioner should know about the creative process, and provides useful suggestions of ways in which practitioners can self- curate positions within their own creativity. This book is a must-have resource for architects who would like to get back into creative form of practice through progression and evolution in their work. 248 pages.

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