Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.1002/9781119200444.ch5
Thomas Yarrow
Construction entangles various people and things that must be disentangled for the building to exist as “property.”28 As contract administrators, architects oversee these transactions, acting as independent adjudicators to regulate the flow: the contractor must build to the specifications that are contractually outlined in the schedule of works according to the outlined timeline; the client must in turn disburse a given amount of funds at a time agreed in advance....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0054
T. Yarrow
I have attempted to describe what happens in an architectural practice as faithfully as possible. Focusing on the transformations that take place from an idea, to a design, to a set of plans, and then to a building, my aim has been to show the complexity, difficulty, and interest of this endeavor. I hope these descriptions suggest parallels and differences: with other people, other places, other processes. I do not offer any ultimate answer to the question of how designs, ideas, inspiration, buildings, or for that matter architects are produced. There is no proposal for how architecture might be done better or differently. I want instead to highlight that even as these architects’ themselves acknowledge the problems inherent in the professional contexts they face, there are also possibilities. Focusing on these everyday practical entanglements makes this evident in ways that are less obvious in generalized accounts of the profession and discipline....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501738500-003
Thomas Yarrow
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0035
Thomas Yarrow
Rob and Megan are talking about angst in architecture: what is it, and where does it come from, they wonder together. ROB: There’s a broad, general, underlying angst, and I think you get a day-to-day angst which is more like you’ve got a big list of things, you’ve got a lot of different projects to move forward, at different stages, and sometimes there’s a design problem that you can’t quite figure out how to do it. You sit there, but you just can’t quite see it. I think in the past a lot of that angst has come from me not being confident, and so not knowing when to just go and ask someone, or when to pick up the phone or call a friend. Do you know what I mean? It’s that feeling of “I don’t quite know how to resolve this.”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501738500-007
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0019
T. Yarrow
We are on a site visit to St. Andrew’s Church, in Tom’s car, a people carrier. He apologizes for the detritus of children’s toys and discarded food wrappers, the material culture of a family life I have glimpsed only in relief. Sometimes Tom leaves early or arrives late to work when he picks up or drops off his boys at school. He talks often and fondly about them, even as he acknowledges the trials and tribulations of fatherhood, as part of a life packed with too many commitments: “Juggling too many things.” We drive along winding lanes, through the claustrophobically narrow valleys of Stroud, then up onto the tops, where the dark earth of freshly plowed autumn fields exposes a skeleton of drystone walls. This is a familiar landscape for Tom. As we drive he points out places of interest, houses the firm has built and projects that didn’t come off, along with buildings and details of architectural interest....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0018
T. Yarrow
Another site visit illuminates how this happens. Roisin is accompanied by Rob, one of the more senior architects in the practice. The plot has an extensive garden, originally part of the grounds of a bigger Victorian mansion. There is already a house, built in the 1980s. The clients, a middle-aged couple with two children, have acquired the site with a view to demolishing the house and rebuilding. Roisin has been working on initial ideas prior to the site visit. The project is being overseen by Rob. Originally a product designer, he changed direction and retrained as an architect in his late twenties. Though he is deferential to Roisin and respectful of her work, his pronouncements seem subtly to carry more weight. This may partly be an artifact of his greater experience but also manifests itself as a form of distancing from the details of the project: he has oversight in the sense of seeing more through seeing less of these distractions. Both have surveyed maps. Rob remarks on notable trees, conscious there may be tree preservation orders. He is using his phone, held outstretched, to take pictures. He observes the site through its screen, his engagement with the site literally framed by the camera and the photographic conventions that govern its architectural use. “You can never take too many,” he observes, joking that however many pictures you take, the crucial view is always missing when you get back to the office. As much as these are personal aide-mémoires, they are also intended to convey the site to others in the office....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0024
T. Yarrow
There is a new work-experience student in the practice. Milo introduces her to the office and explains what normally goes without saying, how the design process works: “We have all kinds of tools available to us.” Computers are one of these tools: “There is a temptation to use them because they are easy to use and produce drawings that look like architects’ drawings.” In fact they are tools that have several tools within them. One of these is SketchUp, a 3D modeling program. Milo explains as he demonstrates, quickly drawing a series of 3D shapes that in only a couple of minutes begins to resemble a house: “It is very, very simple, which is a blessing and a curse—it’s easy to use and quick, which makes it good for working out volumes and masses.” But speed and simplicity come at the expense of precision and refinement. Milo illustrates by rendering a surface with a wood effect: “pretty rank!” he concludes with disgust. Vectorworks is another popular program. Unlike SketchUp, it’s very precise: “good for working out details.” But that can produce its own problems: “It’s easy to get buried in the detail.”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0017
T. Yarrow
Where do ideas come from? I ask Tom. “Yes, where do they come from?” he asks himself, giving the question some thought. “A lot of my ideas come when I’m wandering around a place. I’ve gone to see a client or I’m there surveying. Just being in a place, trying to work out where I want to be, what I want to be looking at, what I want to not be looking at or be protected from, what I want to get rid of. Yes, definitely, a lot of it comes from just sitting, being in a place.”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0032
Thomas Yarrow
Megan, Rob, Tomas, and Phil are reflecting on the difficulties of making time for the things they want to do. MEGAN: We’ve tried to free up time to be creative in a few different ways, haven’t we? With ‘hack time’ [this is the name they give to a weekly hour set aside for interesting activities of no overtly instrumental purpose] and things like that. And it happens for a little bit, and then we don’t do it....
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