Walter Segal - Self-Built Architect

This book examines Walter Segal's unique approach to architecture practice and the enduring impact he has had on architecture and attitudes towards housing across the world.

List of contents

Preface. Part I: What Segal Inherited. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Ascona childhood. 1.3 Berlin youth. 1.4 Berlin and Poelzig. Part II: His intellectual world. 2.1 La Casa Piccola. 2.2 Chance moves, 2.3 The sense of architecture. 2.4 Homes and their environment. 2.5 The independent practitioner. Part III: His built work. 3.1 The post-war architect. 3.2 The timber frame decades. 3.3 Conviviality and architecture. The interval. Part IV: Walter Segal's legacy.

About the author

John McKean is an architect, academic and critic. He has written several books, including on Giancarlo De Carlo, Mackintosh and Alexander Greek Thomson. Alice Grahame has worked as a journalist at the BBC and writes for The Guardian.

Summary

This book examines Walter Segal's unique approach to architecture practice and the enduring impact he has had on architecture and attitudes towards housing across the world.

Additional text

'An engaging and many-faceted book – it is part biography, part intellectual
portrait, part critical monograph and (most appealingly, perhaps) part
florilegium, with many short quotes and comments from people who knew the
subject' – Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Alice Grahame, Alice Mckean Grahame, Grahame Alice, John McKean, McKean John
• Assisted by: Kevin McCloud (Introduction), McCloud Kevin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781848223899
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-389-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 260 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, History of Architecture, Individual architects and architectural firms