Simon Unwin (born 1952) is a British architect and writer.
Life
He was born in 1952 in
Yorkshire
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, but grew up in
Wales
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.
He studied at the
Chelsea School of Art
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It offers further education, further ...
in London and the
Welsh School of Architecture
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in
Cardiff
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. From the Welsh School of Architecture, he obtained a PhD, and he went on to become a senior lecturer there.
From 2004 to 2009, he was Professor of Architecture at the
University of Dundee
, mottoeng = "My soul doth magnify the Lord"
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, ...
, where he is now an
Emeritus Professor
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.
He currently resides in Cardiff.
Work
Unwin has written several books about architecture:
*''An Architecture Notebook: Wall'' (2000)
*''Doorway'' (2007)
*''Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect'' (2012)
*''Analysing Architecture'' (fourth edition, 2014)
*''Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'' (2015; first published in 2010 as ''Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'')
*''The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes'' (2016)
*''Children as Place-makers: The Innate Architect in All of Us'' (2019)
*''Curve: Possibilities and Problems with Deviating from the Straight in Architecture'' (2019)
*''Metaphor: An Exploration of the Metaphorical Dimensions and Potential of Architecture'' (2019)
In ''Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'', he analyses the following buildings:
References
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Architects from Yorkshire
British architecture writers
Alumni of the Welsh School of Architecture
Academics of the University of Dundee
1952 births
Living people