Favorite Architecture Stories

The Fountainhead (1943) introduced the world to architect Howard Roark, an intransigent individualist. (The Fountainhead was also a film- listed elsewhere)

The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel, by Richard Rayner, in which a fictional architect from a village in Finland becomes a designer for a leading New York City gangster.

Starred Review. Construction was started on the Empire State Building on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1930. It was just as the Depression was beginning to squeeze America in its death grip and every job was sacred.

Truth is better than fiction when it's written this well! The Devil in the White City, Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson

Memoir of a life in construction.

Documentary film; the story of one man's search to know the hidden heart of his father, Louis I. Kahn.

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
A beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright’s love affair.

An international thriller with a prominent London Architect as the protagonist.

New York City-limits is experiencing an aberrant construction boom. Spending on construction added by 73 percent to $11.9 billion in 2013, and again acicular by 26 percent endure year to $36 billion. A lot of of the spending is on affluence residences in Manhattan, with a big block of the blow adherent to Brooklyn, just beyond the East River.

Vacant (or Void) commercial property is a headache for any property owner or manager. However, the original innovator of void property management services is coming to the rescue of the property manager faced with this challenge. David White, Chairman Loxal Security Ltd writes;