Reading Architecture and Culture: Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents

Adam Sharr is Professor of Architecture at Newcastle University, Principal of Adam Sharr Architects, Co-Editor of Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) and Series Editor of Thinkers for Architects (Routledge).

Introduction: A Case for Close Reading Adam Sharr Opening 1. Breathing Walls David Leatherbarrow Part 1: Extraodrinary Buildings, Divergent Readings Introduction Adam Sharr 2. An Augury of Collapse: Herzog and De Meuron's Caixa Forum, Madrid Adam Sharr 3. Fostering Relations in Kazakhstan Edward Wainwright 4. Reading the Site at Sverre Fehn's Hamar Museum Suzanne Ewing 5. A Hellish Cloud and a Very Clear Air: Industry, Nature and Weather in Early Eighteenth-Century England Jonathan Hill Part 2: Familiar Buildings, Unfamiliar Readings Introduction Adam Sharr 6. Extension Stories Flora Samuel 7. Lounge Space: The Home, the City and the Service Area Samuel Austin 8. The Architecture of Urban Life: 67 rue des Meuniers Diana Periton 9. The Settings and the Social Condenser: Transitional Objects in Architecture and Psychoanalysis Jane Rendell Part 3: Redolent Details, Insightful Dcouments Introduction Adam Sharr 10. Four Lines Michael Cadwell 11. 'God is in the Details'/'The Detail is Moot': A Meeting Between Koolhaas and Mies Mhairi McVicar 12. Specifying Transparency: From 'Best Seconds' to 'New Glass Performances' Katie Lloyd Thomas 13. Making Plans: Alberti's Ichnography as Cultural Artefact Paul Emmons and Jonathan Foote 14. How the Mind Meets Architecture: What Photography Reveals Hugh Campbell Opening 2 15. An Architectural Good-life can be Built, Explained and Taught only Through Storytelling Marco Frascari