Product Description

An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didnât have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!" That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume. Read, and please, donât ask me why architects wear black! â Cordula Rau, 22. 02. 2008

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #574185 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-21
• Original language: English, German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 228 pages

About the Author

Dipl.-Ing. Cordula Rau ist Architektin und freie Journalistin in München. Sie publiziert in zahlreichen Medien, wie DETAIL, Bauwelt, Deutsches Architektenblatt, archplus, NZZ, Architecture Preview, industrieBAU und H.O.M.E.

Customer Reviews

fun, stocking stuffer
do you have a friend, partner who's an upscale architect?
well this is a great book as a stocking stuffer..

serious journalism ... NOT at all !
as an upscale architect myself, i find this fun reading ..
perhaps a bit overpriced for what it is ..
but i would love for someone to give it to me for x-mas.

great graphics, nice, petite size .. add it to his/her stocking and tell them santa sent it !
i bet they"ll agree.