Why Do Architects Wear Black? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3211791914 ISBN 13: 9783211791912

Publisher: Springer Verlag GmbH, 2008

Synopsis

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 didn’t 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, don’t ask me why architects wear black! – Cordula Rau, 22. 02. 2008

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3211791914
• ISBN 13: 9783211791912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Rau Cordula