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Simon Unwin
British architect and writer (born 1952) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simon Unwin (born 1952) is a British architect and writer.
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He was born in 1952 in Yorkshire, but grew up in Wales.[1]
He studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. From the Welsh School of Architecture, he obtained a PhD, and he went on to become a senior lecturer there.[1]
From 2004 to 2009, he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee,[2] where he is now an emeritus professor.[3][4]
He currently resides in Cardiff.[2]
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Unwin has written several books about architecture:
- An Architecture Notebook: Wall (2000) ISBN 0415228735
- Doorway (2007) ISBN 9780415458818
- Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect (2012) ISBN 9781136486623
- Analysing Architecture (fourth edition, 2014) ISBN 9781317810940
- Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (2015; first published in 2010 as Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand) ISBN 9781317555025
- The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes (2016) ISBN 9781317483243
- Children as Place-makers: The Innate Architect in All of Us (2019) ISBN 9781138046009
- Curve: Possibilities and Problems with Deviating from the Straight in Architecture (2019) ISBN 9781138045941
- Metaphor: An Exploration of the Metaphorical Dimensions and Potential of Architecture (2019) ISBN 9781138045439
In Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand, he analyses the following buildings:
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