Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect
$58.99
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
How does an architect become an architect? In this intimate and playful work of autobiography and criticism, Turner Brooks explores this very question, mapping the way his childhood impressions and enthusiasms later influenced his award-winning architectural work.
In Spatial Memories and Preoccupations, award-winning architect Turner Brooks describes how memories of spatial experiences—a small child occupying a father’s gigantic overcoat, lying awake in a tiny bedroom in an o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230229 |
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| Author: | Turner Brooks |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 146mm |
About The Author
Turner Brooks
Turner Brooks is a principal of Turner Brooks Architects, based in New Haven. The firm, established in Starksboro, Vermont, in 1972, initially designed (and often built) small houses and community facilities local to the area. In the decades since, the firm has expanded its practice to institutional projects, designing university buildings, arts and community centers, and more in the United States and beyond. The monograph Turner Brooks- Work was published in 1995. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation; was awarded a Mid-Career Rome Prize Fellowship in 1984; and in 2015 received the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Miami, Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, and the Yale School of Architecture.
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