Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501738500-010
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0034
T. Yarrow
In the car back to the office, Tomas is feeling, as he often remarks, “stressed.” A lot has been going on in the practice. Over the last year there has been a process of expansion, with more and bigger projects than usual. New staff have been taken on. Systems have been changed, to try to make the process more efficient. Changes have been difficult to implement, alongside the usual pressures of building and design deadlines—“like changing the engine of a car while you’re still driving,” as he puts it....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501738500-010
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0023
T. Yarrow
Often I watch the architects at work, captivated by the process through which designs develop and evolve. Much of this happens in silence. Eyes concentrate on screens, computer-generated images of more or less realized structures moved and remade through barely perceptible movements of the mouse. The movement of hand on tracing paper seems a more literal relationship—eye-arm-hand-pencil-paper—but the question of what it is that animates the process is no less enigmatic. Asked where their designs come from, architects offer thoughtful reflections but confess their own uncertainty about a process that is both familiar and mysterious: “total magic,” as Megan once put it during a group discussion in the office; “something comes from nothing!”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0006
T. Yarrow
When I first started to share my writing, Tomas confessed that he found some of it hard to read. He wished he had said things more eloquently. He was sometimes aware that in putting things into words, he was not completely comfortable with his own position. Thoughtful but, in his own words, “not a theorist,” he worried about sounding naïve if his words were abstracted from the practical contexts through which they arose and were intended to make sense of. Other interviewees, reading their interview transcripts side by side, became newly aware of different perspectives on this work. Even though they expressed discomfort and sometimes harbored doubts about the possible impact on their reputations, the collective thrust of their comments was to urge me further in the direction of “truth.” David responded, having read some early drafts, that the process seemed overly sanitized: “What about all the endless doubts, the anxieties, the sleepless nights?!” he wanted to know. Realizing this more difficult content was missing, I tried to write it in....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501738500-001
Thomas Yarrow
These sections introduce the structure and approach of the book. The ethnographic orientation is described as a commitment to explore the everyday practice of architecture, as architects experience and understand this. The descriptive orientation and aspiration is explained. The conceptual inspirations are outlined as a novel conjunction: of practice-based approaches to architecture, design and creativity; and those involving a more humanist imperative to 'humanise the expert'.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501738500-006
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0027
T. Yarrow
Three of the architects are discussing the relationship between architect and client. MEGAN: It’s tricky to work out how much to just channel what a client wants or to come up with an idea that we feel strongly about. Would that just be arrogant? And what is our role, actually? Who are we representing?...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0036
T. Yarrow
We arrive on-site in sunshine. Carpenters are busy, singing loudly along to the radio: an uninhibited celebration of tunelessness. They are erecting the wooden frame that, as Rob puts it, “is beginning to make the house seem real.” “That’s exciting!” Tomas remarks, eyes lighting up with obvious satisfaction. “The experience of seeing a design built is always strange and always exciting,” he later remarks. “As an architect, you spend time coming up with ideas, playing around with sketches. Everything seems very abstract and conceptual. Then you arrive on-site and suddenly it’s all very real. Walls are being erected, concrete set. You think, ‘Someone’s actually built it’—you’re like, ‘it was only an idea!’ ” He describes returning to a completed building, and the uncanny sense of literally inhabiting your own imagination: “I’m now inside my drawing!”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0003
T. Yarrow
During an audio diary, Tomas reflects on the difficulties of occupying, in his words, “the space between.” He is talking specifically about the space between a plan and a building, the endless decisions, negotiations, problems, and reconciliations that emerge in the effort to translate a plan into a physical structure. In his account it is an anxious space but also one where profound enjoyment and reward can be found. His reflections can be generalized to a larger truth about the nature of architects’ working lives. Much of what this book explores involves architects’ efforts to occupy spaces that are, literally and conceptually, “between.”...
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