The Language of Cities

<b>Deyan Sudjic</b> is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the <i>Observer</i> and <i>The Sunday Times</i> as the editor of <i>Domus</i> in Milan as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale and as a curator in Glasgow Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of <i>B is for Bauhaus The Language of Things</i> and <i>The Edifice Complex</i>. <p><b>The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city</b><br><br>We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities such as resources and land to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners Muscovites or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.</p> <p><b>The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city</b><br><br>We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities such as resources and land to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners Muscovites or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.</p>