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Author
Martin Pawley

Editor
David Jenkins

Preface by
Norman Foster

November 2007
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
 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.



Author and Critic Martin Pawley dies

Architecture critic Martin Pawley has died after a long battle with poor health, passing away early on  Sunday 9th March, a few weeks before his 70th birthday.

A note on Martin's death has appeared on the Architects' Journal website and can be read here, Ian Martin's full obituary of 'our most admired architectural commentator' in this week's issue can be read here. An obituary has also appeared in Building Design and can be read here.

"Throughout a wide-ranging career, in which he advised the Chilean government on housing, taught at the AA, and wrote and edited numerous periodicals and papers, Pawley was known for his unsentimental, sometimes cantankerous demeanour."
Architects' Journal

"Pawley was known for his incisive and provocative journalism."
Building Design

Read David Jenkins' obituary in Tuesday's Guardian here.

Jonanthan Glancey's recollections in Building Design of his disagreements with Martin on the city can be read here. On Martin's collected writings Glancey says 'discover the romantic lurking behind Martin Pawley’s refusal to entertain a facade'.

Read Wiltold Rybczynski's obituary on the Slate website here.

Pawley's collected writings, The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism, were published last year by Black Dog Publishing. A memorial event was held at the Architectural Association on the 18th March.




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The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism
Martin Pawley Collected Writings

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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.


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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.