Four Walls and a Roof The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession Marie Alohalani Brown brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957

unconventional and almost sentimentally hopeful

Four Walls and a Roof The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession Marie Alohalani Brown brilliantly translated by Sophie HughesA Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year Sharp, revealing, funny. The Guardian An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it. The Economist Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof