The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580934250 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Demystifying the Creative Act in Architecture: A Mid-Twentieth Century Personality Study The excellent documentation of a two-year personality study in the late 1950's, evaluating the cause and skill assessment of "creativity" used by the world's most revered architects of the mid-twentieth century who participated in the study.. "Five Stars" according to chris casey. If you love the modern masters, this is a must have for the library!. This is undoubtedly the best book I have read on creativity. John Mors This is undoubtedly the best book I have read on creativity.This is because the book is based on a solid study as opposed to suppositions.It provides interesting insights onto the work habits of some major architects and their personalities which are rarely covered elsewhere.One of the most interesting results was that when architects were asked to name their major influences, the person mentioned in most books about them was not in the list. It also explains ho
The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, and dozens more—is now published for the first time. In The Creative Architect, Pierluigi Serraino charts the development, implementation, and findings of this historic study, producing the first look at a fascinating and forgotten moment in architecture, psychology, and American history.. Yet virtually unheard of is this intensive 1958–59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, that scrutinized these famous architects in an effort to map their minds. The story behind a little-known episode in the an
His work and writings have been published in professional and scholarly journals such as Architectural Record, Architecture California, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Architectural Design (UK). . Pierluigi Serraino, AIA, is an architect, author, and educator. He has authored and contributed to several books, among them Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, 2000), Eero Saa
‘Wonderful for the ego!’”—Christine Cipriani, The Wall Street Journal“In his new book, the indefatigable Pierluigi Serraino has unearthed an epic attempt—a study of architects by Donald MacKinnon and his collaborators at Berkeley’s Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR). What resulted was an incredibly intimate, at times uncomfortable, portrait of a group of now-legendary architects. . The Creative Architect is a window into another world; one where we can see how the anxieties, personality defects, and fraught childhood dramas can coexist—and even bolster—the creative successes of very flawed humans. Now that story is told in full.” —John Cleese, writer and comedian “The Creative Architect is a richly textured account of o