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Encounters with Architecture : Insights from a Hundred Places - Howard Davis

Encounters with Architecture

Insights from a Hundred Places

By: Howard Davis

Paperback | 15 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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The hundred places of this book were visited over several decades, and played an important role in Davisâs career. Insights come from everyday places and famous landmarks: some beautiful, some the product of fine craftsmanship, some active places of gathering or commerce, some quiet places of contemplation. All stayed in the authorâs memory, helping build the framework of his understandings of what is important to people in architecture and cities.

Organized chronologically, the book begins with the authorâs encounters with buildings and places as a child in New York, and leads to his most recent architectural experiences as a seasoned professor, scholar and traveler. Each encounter is explained on two or three pages, that bring out the reasons for its significance and the lessons learned from it. Readers are encouraged to look for themselves and see how the places they encounter in their everyday lives and travels can enrich their own understandings about the built world that surrounds them.

Illustrated with beautiful photographs, drawings and diagrams, the book will interest people outside architecture who are fascinated by buildings and cities, as well as teachers, practitioners and students of architecture and cities

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