Architect's Guide to Fame

Paul Davies is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at South Bank University, Lecturer in General Studies at the Architectural Association, and External Examiner for Westminster University. His work has been published extensively. He was also conceptual designer for the Work and Learn Zones of the Millennium Dome (Greenwich, UK), which won a RIBA medal in 2000. Torsten Schmiedeknecht is Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool, and Director of Studies for the B. Arch. programme. He has also taught at the University of Kingston. He has previously published books and articles on the subject of fame and architecture, and his work has been exhibited in both the UK and Europe.

• Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction;Part I Paper Architecture; What is it about the Smithsons?; The Archigram Group; Boyarsky and the Architectural Association; Fame and the Changing Role of Drawing; Part II Bricks and Mortar; Switzerland – Botta: Fame and Scale; Italy – Rossi: Fame and Familiarity; The Netherlands – Koolhaas and the Profession at Play; Germany – (Un)edited Architecture; Wettbewerbe Aktuell; Spain – The Fame Game; USA – Ground Zero: 1,776 ft into Thin Air; Part III Conduits; Editors – Architectural Design in the 1970s and 1980s; It’s not About the Work!; All The Kings Men; All The Kings Men and a Few Women; Part IV Portraits; The Portraits; Art, Architecture, Artists and Architects; A-List Architects; The Fall and Rise of Craig Ellwood; Situating Dalibor Vesely; The Psyche of the Unit Master; The Psyche of a Depressed and Disappointed Unit Master; Seeking Peter Zumthor; Kit Allsopp; The Chapter According to St John