'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

Autorentext
Alice Grahame has worked as a journalist at the BBC and has written for The Guardian on various subjects, including Walter Segal. She previously published a book with photographer Taran Wilkhu entitled 'Walter's Way and Segal Close: The Architect Walter Segal and London's Self-Build Community'. John McKean is a fully trained architect, academic and critic. He has taught at the Architectural Association, Middlesex University, Colombo Sri Lanka and for 11 years was Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton. He has written several books, including on Giancarlo De Carlo, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander Greek Thomson.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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.