Nigel Coates – författare

The first book to look architectural narrative in the eye Since the early eighties, many architects have used the term "narrative" to describe their work. To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. Narrative Architecture explores the potential for narrative as a way of interpreting buildings from ancient history through to the present, deals with architectural background, analysis and practice as well as its future development. Authored by Nigel Coates, a foremost figure in the field of narrative architecture, the book is one of the first to address this subject directlyFeatures architects as diverse as William Kent, Antoni Gaudí, Eero Saarinen, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas, and FAT to provide an overview of the work of NATO and Coates, as well as chapters on other contemporary designersIncludes over 120 colour photographsSignposting narrative's significance as a design approach that can aid architecture to remain relevant in this complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-everything age, Narrative Architecture is a must-read for anyone with an interest in architectural history and theory.

Irreverentand iconoclastic, Nigel Coates has been agitating the architectural scene forover 40 years. In this warm and compelling autobiography, he explores the highsand lows of life at the cutting edge of architecture.Coates’work collides at the intersection between bodies, sexuality and design. As'artist-architect' and polymath, he has designed buildings, exhibitions,interiors and products. He is also known for his idiosyncratic and dynamicdrawings. From the 1980s onwards he captured the media spotlight, and was as likelyto appear in Vogue as the Architectural Review.Hisportfolio includes work for leading brands, such asLiberty, Katharine Hamnett and Jasper Conran, and destination clubs and cafesfrom Istanbulto Tokyo. Buildings include The Wall in Japan, Powerhouse::uk and the GeffryeMuseum in London. He designs for many Italian companiessuch as Fornasetti, GTV and Poltronova, and hasproduced lively installations for international art institutions and designexhibitions. AsHead of Architecture at the Royal College of Art from 1995-2011, he turnedthe department into a leading international school.Featuringover 120images of Coates’ most celebrated projects, this memoir is a visual feast forany devotee of contemporary design. It encompasses his childhood in postwarMalvern, student years at the Architectural Association, the founding ofradical architectural group NATØ, ’70s and ’80s London club culture and lostloves along the way. This is a searingly honest, unvarnished personal historyof one of the UK’s most versatile and influentialdesigners.