About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
Hugh Pearman
Yale University Press, £30, 256 pages
Hugh Pearman is an architectural writer, and has written a number of books on modern architecture. He was architect and design critic of the Sunday Times from 1986 to 2016, and edited the journal of the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) from 2006 to 2020.
The book is organised by building type. Pearman has chosen 11 basic types with five examples of buildings in each section. These types are: Civic, Houses, Education, Offices, Industry, Transport, Museums, Performance, Religion, Retail and Gardens.
