>Hi Gavin
I have a partial recollection that may stir others to remember the
book and author. There was a book that I once owned, loaned to a
student, never seen again,that looked at the relationships between
American architects, their fame and the links with major firms.
The theme of the book was that architects who worked with keynote
practices at the height of their fame subsequently had a good chance
of becoming famous themselves. The book used diagrams that plotted
the career tragectories of architects that had been employed by major
firms, Sullivan etc.
The key finding seemed to be that if you worked for a famous
architect at the height of their fame (just after winning major
prizes or building major projects) you had a much better chance of
gaining fame yourself than if you were employed by the same architect
at a later stage in their history.
The title was something like 'American Architects and the mechanics
of fame'
Regards
Alun
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>Subject: RE: designer identity and celebrity culture
>Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:02:59 +1100
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>>Hello listers
>>I am interested in developing one aspect of a qualitative study I am
>currently doing . One aspect of this is designer talk about their
>background and it is apparent in the interviews that many designers
>construct their identity through reference to the star celebrities in
>their respective design fields (and sometimes whether they have
>worked for them, spoken to them etc). Since this seems to be such a
>pervasive element in designers doing identity (perhaps less so in
>industrial design) I wonder what substantive research work has been
>done on this.
>>
>>Dr Gavin Melles
>>Research Fellow, Faculty of Design
>>Swinburne University of Technology
>>http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmelles
>>
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