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Daniel Solomon

Daniel Solomon, FAIA, is Director of Solomon E.T.C., a WRT company, and Principal of the architecture firm WRT. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and was named to Architectural Digest's list of 100 foremost architects in 1991 and 1995. He is Co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism and author of ReBuilding (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992).

Bedside Essays for Lovers (of Cities)

In this provocative collection of essays, renowned architect Daniel Solomon delves into the complexities of what makes a city vibrant. Acknowledging that a city is not a static thing, he argues we need to pay more attention to nurturing what he calls “continuous cities.” In such a city, he says, “new buildings, new institutions, and new technologies don’t rip apart the old and wreck it.

Global City Blues

Global City Blues

"This is a book about the making of cities and the buildings that compose them. It is about the conditions under which an architect engaged in those activities now works, how those conditions evolved and why they are changing. It is about the qualities of life that are threatened by the ways cities are built at the beginning of the 21st century and intelligent response to those threats.