Robert McCarter is a practising architect and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. His books include Frank Lloyd Wright (Reaktion, 2006), Louis I. Kahn (2005) and Understanding Architecture (2012).

Inhabitation is the soul of architecture. This important and thoughtful book is one of the very first to discuss the primal nature of the interior experience, which we believe is the place where design begins. The Space Within initiates a conversation that is essential to all who study, practice, and think about architecture. - Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, architectsA succinct, erudite study of the experiential qualities and meanings of interior space. Using his unique knowledge of the design work, writings and thinking of the masters of modernity, Robert McCarter shows that the geniuses of architecture have always grasped the experiential and mental essence of their art form. The Space Within is highly recommended as a significant antidote to todays formalist aestheticization and shallow digital ecstasy. - Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and author of The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses The author delves into the process used by various designers and examines how they have engaged with interior space and the experiences it can provide. McCarter focuses on modern architecture throughout the world, examining familiar buildings by renowned architects. Although he provides no photographs of the interiors, he makes up for that with his own sketches, done while on-site. Highly recommended - ChoiceWe should welcome, then, Robert McCarter’s The Space Within, a meditation on “interior experience” in architecture, and an appeal on behalf of this experience as “the only appropriate way to evaluate architecture” . . . a dense and compelling portrait of a particular history of thinking about, and making, buildings - Oxonian Review

Robert McCarter is a practising architect and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. His books include Frank Lloyd Wright (Reaktion, 2006), Louis I. Kahn (2005) and Understanding Architecture (2012).

Inhabitation is the soul of architecture. This important and thoughtful book is one of the very first to discuss the primal nature of the interior experience, which we believe is the place where design begins. The Space Within initiates a conversation that is essential to all who study, practice, and think about architecture. - Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, architectsA succinct, erudite study of the experiential qualities and meanings of interior space. Using his unique knowledge of the design work, writings and thinking of the masters of modernity, Robert McCarter shows that the geniuses of architecture have always grasped the experiential and mental essence of their art form. The Space Within is highly recommended as a significant antidote to todays formalist aestheticization and shallow digital ecstasy. - Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and author of The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses The author delves into the process used by various designers and examines how they have engaged with interior space and the experiences it can provide. McCarter focuses on modern architecture throughout the world, examining familiar buildings by renowned architects. Although he provides no photographs of the interiors, he makes up for that with his own sketches, done while on-site. Highly recommended - ChoiceWe should welcome, then, Robert McCarter’s The Space Within, a meditation on “interior experience” in architecture, and an appeal on behalf of this experience as “the only appropriate way to evaluate architecture” . . . a dense and compelling portrait of a particular history of thinking about, and making, buildings - Oxonian Review