Architecture

Simon Unwin’s Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is just published, and now he is analyzing the The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History.  Learn more about Simon and his work at http://simonunwin.com/

In our exclusive interview, Philip Plowright, author of Revealing Architectural Design, discusses his book's significance to the design aspect of architecture.  Revealing Architectural Design is an advanced primer useful to anyone interested in increasing the quality of their architectural design proposals through understanding the conceptual tools used to achieve that process.

David Rockwood, author of Bamboo Gridshells, discusses his new book and it's relevance to ecologically sound building materials.

Christopher Day, author of Places of the Soul, discusses architecture's role in the debate between the human spirit and nature versus nurture.

Click here to read a fascinating interview with James F. Williamson, FAIA, the author of 'Kahn at Penn'. He reveals the reasons why he decided to write this book,  what he found surprising when researching the book and his thoughts on architectural education today.

(This book is part of the Routledge Research in Architecture Series. Click here to go to the series page)

"Contributors offer valuable discussion of the post–WW II German Rathaus as an attempt to deal with an "uncertain" national identity and provide a good examination of architecture in the service of Mussolini’s Fascist state. A welcome global approach that features material on Bombay, Jakarta, Mexico, and Korea is revealing, especially on the influence of colonialism; however, more could have been said about sources of indigenous, pre-European civic engagement. Endnotes and numerous, adequate, black-and-white illustrations are provided but no bibliography. Although this volume shows the inevitable fragmentation typical of such an enterprise, the attention to unfamiliar themes and innovative approaches means that this book will interest serious students of civic architecture.Summing Up: Recommended" --W. S. Rodner, Tidewater Community Colleg, CHOICE Reviews, January 2015 

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