How to be a happy architect

How to be a happy architect by Bauman Lyons Architects is a new book the has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Preface - How to be a Happy Architect
Chapter 1 - Disconnections Due to Rapid Rate of Change

• Introduction: Architect as the Stitcher of Disconnections
• Essay 1.1 Disconnected Architects
• Essay 1.2 Disconnected Clients
• Essay 1.3 Disconnected Cities

Chapter 2 - Disconnections Due to Resistance to Change

• Introduction: Whose Value System?
• Essay 2.1 The Curse of Howard Roark: Disconnections Between Education and Practice
• Essay 2.2 Vanity in Architecture: The Disconnection Between Image and Reality

Chapter 3 - Architects' Choice

• Four Ways of Practicing Architecture

Chapter 4 - Architectural Practice as the Stitching of Disconnections

• The Edge of New Technologies
• People at the Edge
• The Edge of Viability
• The Edge of Man-made and Nature
• The Edge of What We Know ... the Future
• Connecting the Edges

Chapter 5 - Stitching the Team

• Who gets us out of bed?