Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession eBook

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This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis. The book uses the metaphorical world of Practiceopolis to provoke big questions about everyday routines in the profession that practitioners may take for granted and to examine different ideologies at work among architects and other members of the construction industry. The novel ends in the tradition of dystopian worlds common in a certain strand of graphic novels. By vividly illustrating and narrating the critical issues he interrogates, the author has created a world which any architect, student or professional, will both instantly recognise and simultaneously reject, provoking the reader to challenge themselves and the profession at large.

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9780367853341, 9780367425432

Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession 1st Edition is written by Yasser Megahed and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession are 9781000168488, 1000168484 and the print ISBNs are 9780367425449, 0367425440. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780367853341, 9780367425432.