Paul Shepheard: 4 books
What Is Architecture?
An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of...
How To Like Everything
A Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
How To Like Everything is a utopia. 'Utopia' is a word invented five hundred years ago at the start of the modern age as a description of the ideal society. It's composed of Latin parts that taken together mean 'no place' or 'nowhere'. We now use the word utopia to mean an impossible dream of perfection....
Artificial Love
A Story of Machines and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2003
Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him.
The Cultivated Wilderness
Or, What is Landscape?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Every architectural move is set in a landscape. This book is about those landscapes and the strategies that govern what we've done in shaping them.