Architecture Depends (The MIT Press)

This is an excellent book, and very important to the discipline of architecture. Till provides a narrative that situates architecture as a human discipline in a rich vein of social theory, and reveals the thinkers who we a architects should be paying close attention to, from De Certeau to Lefebvre, rather than trying to appropriate architectural theory from algorithms or literary theory. He is placing architecture in the context of the human, and not as isolated objects frozen in time.

One of my favourite books I’ve bought for my uni course, architecture

Got this book as a gift for someone studying architecture and sounds like it is a very interesting book.

it's great!

On time :o)

It may appear overstating the obvious, but Till's thesis that architects live in a bubble is important and timely, and put across with wit and erudition. I found the book accessible, engaging and very well written - the theory bits interspersed with anecdotes that bring the message to life. This is essential reading for architects and architectural students to remind them of the world beyond - and I say this as someone from outside the discipline who has been let down by architectural conceit. I could have done with a few more examples of the argument in practice.

He could have sumarized his topic (even though, it is a good one) in one witty paragraph.

We need people like Till.More than ever what we design, inflict, invent for the world needs scrutiny and instinct in equal measure.At the risk of professional misunderstanding, Till gives his profession the chance to turn a seeming negative into a positive.For those in the next generation, with designs on our planet, they could no better than to read this !

Easy to read and in such a language that an architectural beginner understands the concepts and lingo.

Love

The insights in this book are inspiring and the writing is refreshingly clear and honest. It's especially useful for reminding you that being a student never ends, whether you're working in the "real world" and have left school far behind or whether you're teaching in one. The resistance to its critical arguments on the part of certain reviewers here evidently proves their potential to challenge. Since this book avoids many of the most common pitfalls in architectural discourse, from wayward theoretical abstraction and confused jargon to compulsive obsession with practical or historical detail, those who like getting stuck in these traps may have an especially hard time working through it. Critics with impossible standards or cynical dispositions may also have trouble appreciating its humbling realism and progressive idealism (and might be better served mining its bibliography, which represents thoughtful engagement with Karatani, Bauman, Latour, and others). But for those who are willing to work with the contingencies of life and recognize the dependencies of design, this book can help open up a world of possibility.

very competent, both painful and encouraging, description and analysis of the interdependence of architecture.