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Writing Architecture: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication about the Built Environment
Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Wiseman’s 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and teaching young architects how to write. This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers crucial to successful architecture clarity of thinking and expression. He argues that because we live our lives within the built environment, architecture is the most comprehensive and complex of all art forms.
Written as a primer for both college-level students and practitioners, Writing Architecture acknowledges and explores the boundaries between different techniques of architecture writing from myriad perspectives and purposes. Using excerpts from writers in different genres and from different historical periods, Wiseman offers a unique and authoritative perspective on the comprehensible writing skills needed for success.
Written as a primer for both college-level students and practitioners, Writing Architecture acknowledges and explores the boundaries between different techniques of architecture writing from myriad perspectives and purposes. Using excerpts from writers in different genres and from different historical periods, Wiseman offers a unique and authoritative perspective on the comprehensible writing skills needed for success.
240 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2013
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November 29, 2015
A nice discussion of aspects of writing about architecture. The chapter about writing about fictional architecture was a nice surprise. I'm not aware of any other writing text that talks about this specifically. Overall, the text is more chatty than useful, though. It often discusses examples at length in lieu of specific concrete advice.
I might assign chapters from this in an upper-division architectural writing class or give it to a grad student to read, but it isn't appropriate for lower-division undergraduate classes.
I might assign chapters from this in an upper-division architectural writing class or give it to a grad student to read, but it isn't appropriate for lower-division undergraduate classes.
October 7, 2014
Wiseman has a pithy, practical style I appreciate. With a remarkable lack of opaque architectural lingo he clearly lays out the ingredients of good architectural writing in critical, scholarly, or professional settings.
December 16, 2016
More useful to an architect trying to write than a writer trying to get better talking about architecture.
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