The Culture of Building

"It's not often that a book appears with the potential to fundamentally change the way we think about the built world. The Culture of Building by Howard Davis is such a book....[It] is filled with both beautiful and gritty photos of people building and the places they produce....Davis' ideas are clear, intelligent, and substantial, and he writes about them in a refreshing, penetrating, and enlightening way.... Davis's goal is nothing less than a "unified theory" of architecture and construction, a book that finally explains it all design, codes, contracts, style, technology, finance, place-making, education and how they interrelate."-Architecture Week