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Review �Something of a revelation�[De Graaf] has produced an original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again�He deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.�?The Economist�[It] tells the stories that tend to get left out of official histories, but which actually shape our physical environment�De Graaf�s book is sharp, revealing, funny, drily passionate and not always encouraging.�?Rowan Moore, The Guardian�This is a book about power, money and influence, and architecture�s complete lack of any of them. It is a book not about architecture�s successes but about its failures. Witty, insightful and funny, it is a (sometimes painful) dissection of a profession that thinks it is still in control.�?Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times�De Graaf is an excellent, witty and perceptive essayist. The heart of the book is a series of astonishing accounts of the protracted?and as it turns out, all doomed?sagas to get big urban projects approved and built in London (just pre-crash), Moscow (just pre-Putin), the Emirates (just pre-oil slump), and Kurdistan (just pre-Isis). The way de Graaf builds up to each (in hindsight) inevitable disappointment is masterly�He emerges as an unlikely, deeply skeptical architectural Everyman.�?Hugh Pearman, The Spectator�This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years. Not only is de Graaf a good anecdotalist (his hilarious account of a long-winded and fruitless masterplanning competition in Russia should be turned into a film), but a perceptive analyst of how architecture represents, or connects with, wider political and economic movements and trends.�?Paul Finch, Architects� Journal�Takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practice?from the quotidian (and sometimes comic) frustrations to the occasional triumphs and memorable failures.�?Josephine Minutillo, Architectural Record�Provocative�De Graaf has no fixed method. But the impressive extent and depth of his knowledge persistently inform his meditations, which take in many subjects. His mood is invariable. He is constantly and exhilaratingly cynical�Because he displays such candor?albeit polished candor, and such a perfectly gauged lack of tact?it is easy to forget that de Graaf is an architect, an insider, part of the system he dissects�De Graaf is likely to remain an architect for decades to come. In those circumstances, his enthusiasm for biting the hand that feeds him is admirably risky.�?Jonathan Meades, Literary Review�A refreshingly accessible, honest portrayal of a quixotic field from someone within the most successful architecture firm in the world today� One of the most intelligent, candid discussions on architecture I have read to date. Thus, Four Walls and a Roof offers an entertaining, penetrating, and much needed primer on the current state of the profession and the contemporary global forces influencing the built environment. A must-read list for architects, planners, and urban designers alike.�?Erick Villagomez, Spacing�Reinier de Graaf paints an honest picture of what it is like to work as an architect today�[He] provides engaging stories about the banal, everyday reality of working for an acclaimed firm. These vivid, uncompromising narratives are contextualized with shrewd essays about architecture�s lost ideals, its false pretentions, and utter dependence on forces far more powerful than design.�?Mark Minkjan, Failed Architecture�Ruthlessly honest about what it is like to work at architecture and wickedly cynical about how power works in our current economy, Reinier de Graaf�s vantage point from a top architectural firm doesn�t make him crow of success but, rather, pushes us architects, for better or worse, to keep fighting the good fight. Reading Four Walls and a Roof will make you laugh, cry, and so identify.�?Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture Read more About the Author Reinier de Graaf is Partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam. Read more
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