Architecture Depends

<b>Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.</b><p>Architecture depends&#151;on what? On people time politics ethics mess: the real world. Architecture Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging sometimes pugnacious book cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy purity and control that architects like to make about their practice architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans&#151;at every stage in the process from design through construction to occupancy. Architects however tend to deny this fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With <i>Architecture Depends</i> architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote design social theory and personal experience Till's writing is always accessible moving freely between high and low registers much like his suggestions for architecture itself.</p>