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Author
Martin Pawley
Editor
David Jenkins
Preface by
Norman Foster
Hardback
480 pages
350 b/w and colour ills
25.0 x 17.5 cm
10.0 x 7.0 in
ISBN13: 978 1 906155 19 3
Norman Foster's Book of the Year!
Norman Foster has nominated The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism by Martin Pawley as his 2008 book of the year.
"This book is a reminder of how refreshing and valuable architectural criticism at its best can be." Norman Foster
Read the full Observer article here.
Further tributes to Martin Pawley
Blueprint have reproduce Peter Cook's review of Martin Pawley's The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism as a tribute to his passing. Read the review here.
An obituary in The Times called Martin 'the most intriguing British architectural commentator of the late 20th century'. Read the obituary here.
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The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism Martin Pawley Collected Writings
The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism is a collection of 100 essays and articles by Martin Pawley, one of the most important and entertaining voices in post-war architectural criticism. Pawley studied
architecture at the Oxford School of Architecture, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Architectural Association in London, before embarking on a distinguished career as a writer, teacher, critic and broadcaster.
A former editor of Building Design, Pawley was later architecture critic of The Guardian and The Observer and has contributed to The Architects’ Journal, RIBA Journal and Blueprint amongst other publications.
Spanning Pawley’s 40 year career, The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism is a celebration of his remarkable body of work. Beginning with his AA diploma thesis “The Time House”, the book includes
writings on contemporary design, iconic buildings and some of the most important issues facing modern architecture as well as interviews with architects including Norman Foster, Buckminster Fuller, Leon Krier and Zaha Hadid. By turns poignant, coruscating, controversial and humorous – but always original and insightful – this book is a reminder of how exhilarating architectural writing at its best can be.
