The Language Of Cities

Description

Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the underlying forces that shape the urban spaces around us, from their buildings to their names, from the power of crowds to why being a Londoner, New Yorker or Muscovite can offer a sense of identity greater than any other

Reviews

A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design ... It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic Evening Standard Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators Royal Academy magazine

Author description

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.