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Monday Morning Musings: Architecture, Architects, and Life

by Allan Kehrt Faia
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Feb 2022
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In the early 2000s, Allan Kehrt, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a founding partner of the architecture firm KSS Architects, began writing down ideas about architecture. These were short notes, quick studies on a single idea, the literary equivalent of an architect's sketch. In the days before email was common, each week he would put a note on a new topic in his employees' physical inboxes or mention that week's idea at Monday morning meetings. The notes, each formatted in a small square of text, with just a single-word title, quickly became known around the office as his Monday Morning Musings.

Over time, the notes sometimes strayed from architecture to other ideas--language, leadership, even the life of dogs. But ultimately, each entry connects back to design and to the extraordinary reach and responsibility an architect has in shaping-- quite literally--the world around us.

This book is a collection of those Monday Morning Musings, which Kehrt continued to write every week for nearly a decade. Taken together, they are a view into the philosophy behind a practice, and a moving meditation on what it means and why it matters to push for design that makes the world a more beautiful, more equitable, and more human place.

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PublisherBookBaby
PublishedFeb 22, 2022
ISBN-101667825747
ISBN-139781667825748
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions8.75 × 0.7 × 8.75 in
Weight2 lb

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