The creative architect : inside the great midcentury personality study / Pierluigi Serraino.

Main entry:

Serraino, Pierluigi, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

The creative architect : inside the great midcentury personality study / Pierluigi Serraino.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 2016.
©2016

Description:

248 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index.
Genesis of a study -- The design of the study -- Testing days -- The mind of an architect -- Creativity unveiled.

Summary:

An unknown episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology?a 1950s University of California, Berkeley, evaluation of creativity with subjects including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, and 37 other major architects?is published for the first time. The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures?Richard Neutra, George Nelson, Louis Kahn?who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Yet virtually unheard of is the intensive 1958?59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, that scrutinized these and dozens of other famous architects in an effort to map their minds. Deploying an array of tests reflecting current psychological theories, the investigation sought to answer questions that still apply to creative practice today: What makes a person creative? What are the biographical conditions and personality traits necessary to actualize that potential? The study?s findings have been gathered through numerous original sources, including questionnaires, aptitude tests, and interview transcripts, revealing how these great architects evaluated their own creativity and that of their peers. 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.

ISBN:

9781580934251 (hardback)
1580934250 (hardback)

Subject:

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Research.
Architects Psychology.
Architectes Psychologie.
ARCHITECTURE General.
ARCHITECTURE History Contemporary (1945- )
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
Arkitektur historia.
Arkitektur psykologiska aspekter.
Arkitekter.
Förenta staterna.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292751
Call No.: BIB 237178
Status: Available

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