Encounters with Architecture

This book draws inspiration from one hundred places-towns, buildings, streets, rooms, villages-from different eras and from around the world, that have played an important role in the author's career in architecture, as a researcher, practitioner and teacher. Insights come from everyday places as well as from famous landmarks, from the house to the public building, from the street to the city. The book is organized chronologically, beginning with the authors' earliest encounters with architecture as a child in New York, leading to his most recent experiences as an experienced professor and scholar who has traveled to over 50 countries on six continents. Readers are encouraged to be explicit about how they look at the world, to see how looking further and deeper at the places they encounter in their everday lives and in their travels can enrich their ideas and understandings about the world around them. With beautiful photographs, supplemented by drawings and diagrams, the book will interest people who are fascinated by architecture and cities, including teachers, practitioners and students of architecture and urban design.