Architecture, memes and minds
This is a book review. I don't do them often, but I am honoured to do
this one. And I do it because I really do think Chris Abel writes
important books. Not many books. Abel is primarily an essayist – in
the original meaning of
'essayer',
like
Montaigne, he writes clearly and succinctly to
try to explain the world around
him. Well, not all of the world; Abel concentrates on what is architecture,
how we make architecture, and why it defines us as human beings.
As if all that wasn't enough, Abel interests me specially, because unlike
most other architectural theorists, he doesn't set up an implied opposition
between an architecture that does least ecological harm, and Architecture
explained by some other cultural imperatives.
