From Craft to Profession
The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4754037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Irish (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 590-591 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2000.0108 |
| OpenAlex | W1905647691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Not so long ago we witnessed the death of the Author; Mary Woods's book, in a sense, traces the death of the private architectural practice in America. In analyzing the metamorphosis of the architect from artisan to businessman, Woods traces the subsumption of the architectural creation process by large bureaucracies, with an architect being just one more cog in the great American corporate wheel. While writers like Kenneth Boulding in The Organizational Revolution (New York: Harper, 1953) discussed many of these trends nearly fifty years ago, it is a pleasure to add Woods's long-awaited book to the shelf because she applies these ideas to architecture specifically
Archaeology · Art history · Bureaucracy · Craft · Management · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Architecture · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Architecture, Modernity, and Design · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2017 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |