Encounters with Architecture by Davis, Howard;

Short description:

This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the everyday to the famous, from houses to public buildings, and from streets to cities.

Long description:

The hundred places of this book were visited over several decades, and played an important role in Davis’s 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 author’s 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 author’s 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

Table of Contents:

PART ONE 1957–1975  Four shops, St. Johns Place, Brooklyn  Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn  Meadows, Catskill Mountains, New York  House, Levittown, Long Island  Small towns near New York City  Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, New York  Foundation Building, Cooper Union, New York  Library, Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon  Orchard Lane, Berkeley, California  London  La Tourette Monastery, Eveux-sur-l’Arbresle, France  Farmhouse, Tunisia  Roehampton housing estate, London  Arcaded streets, Bologna, Italy  PART TWO 1980–1985  House, Sierra Nevada, California  Christian Science Church, Berkeley, California  New York Public Library  West 47th Street, New York  Mosque of Rustem Pasa, Istanbul  Outdoor book market, Istanbul  Mount Athos, Greece  Little Singer Building, New York  Victoria and India streets, Edinburgh, Scotland  Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England  House, open-air museum, Copenhagen  Washington Mews, New York  A neighborhood in Cairo  Kings Road House, West Hollywood, California  PART THREE 1986–1991  Knight Library, University of Oregon, Eugene  Red Fort, Delhi, India  Houses and streets, Jaisalmer, India  Mausoleum of Mahmud Begada, Sarkhej, Ahmedabad, India  Sarabhai House, Ahmedabad, India  Doges’ Palace, Venice  Wilhelm Pelster house-barn, Franklin County, Missouri  Public housing, Vienna  Karlsplatz Station, Vienna  Church and orphanage, Florence, Italy  Church of San Prassede, Rome  Cosmati pavements, Roman churches, Italy  Side of the road, India  Village house, near L’viv, Ukraine  PART FOUR 1992–1999  Passage des Panoramas, Paris  A slum, Madras (now Chennai), India  Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens  Apartment terrace, Athens  Entsu-ji Temple, Kyoto  Daishen-in, Myoshinji, Kyoto  St. James Piccadilly, London  Apartment houses, New York  Inner Shrine, Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan  Tung Pattana, Chiang Mai, Thailand  Al-Ghansour Caravanserai, Cairo, Egypt  Grand Central Terminal, New York  Tinngarden, Herfolge, Denmark  Pati, Patan, Nepal  Newari house, Patan, Nepal  Trapezoidal bricks, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal  PART FIVE 2000–2004  Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle  India International Centre, New Delhi  Court Gardener’s House, Potsdam, Germany  Shop/houses in New York  American Folk Art Museum, New York  Arnados, Tinos, Greece  Canal houses, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  Seventeenth-century house interiors, the Netherlands  Town hall, Hilversum, the Netherlands  Artists’ houses and studios, Hammersmith, London  Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada  Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh  PART SIX 2006–2014  Equitable Building, Portland  St. Mark’s Church, Bjorkhagen, Stockholm  Cantonal library of Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland  Commercial extensions, London  Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), Hamburg, Germany  Housing project, Lindenstrasse, Berlin  Dunboyne Road housing, Camden, London  Gillett Square, Dalston, London  Thermal baths, Vals, Switzerland  Cathedral, Chartres, France  Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy  Swimming pool, Matosinhos, Portugal  Sao Bento Train Station, Porto, Portugal  PART SEVEN 2015–2024  Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, Rome  Winkley Estate, Bethnal Green, London  Myyrmaki Church, Vantaa, Finland  Town hall, Saynatsalo, Finland  Three spaces, Hvittrask, Kirkkonummi, Finland  Dining room, Aalto house, Helsinki, Finland  Tripotamos, Tinos, Greece  Everyman Theatre, Liverpool  Worship Street houses, London  Silkweavers’ work spaces, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India  Karappankadu, Tamil Nadu, India  Castelvecchio, Verona  Hedmark Museum, Hamar, Norway  Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris  Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York  Experimental project, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico  Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil