Architecture Matters

(Hardback)

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Architecture matters. To our personal and daily lives, to our communities and cities and to our economy and ecology.

Former practitioner, critic, curator, museum director and, today, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Aaron Betsky has been deeply engaged with the world of architecture for almost fifty years. Drawing from his personal and professional experience, he revelas why architecture really does matter to all of us, everywhere, increating better buildings and places.

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'A collection of observations about the social and political role that the built environment plays that is as handy, eloquent and appealing to high-minded architects as it is to dilettantes' - Monocle
'Informative and entertaining' - Architects' Journal

Author Bio

Aaron Betsky is Dean of the Frank Lloyd School of Architecture, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.