Building the Architect's Character

An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. Through the analogies and metaphors found in Greek myth, Building the Architect’s Character: Explorations in Traits  describes the elusive, hard-to-define characteristics of architects to engage the dilemmas of a changing architectural landscape. A discussion of such subjects as; defining, imaging, persuading, and fabricating will reveal representational meaning useful for understandings architects’ character. This book examines traditional and archetypal characteristics of the successful architect to ask if they remain relevant today. Includes 70 black and white images._x005F_x000D_