Simon Unwin (born 1952) is a British architect and writer.

Life

He was born in 1952 in

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, but grew up in

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. He studied at the

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in London and the

Welsh School of Architecture The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) ( cy, Ysgol Bensaernïaeth Cymru) is an academic school of Cardiff University. It is generally regarded as a world leading school of architecture, and one of the top architecture schools in Britain. In 2019 ...

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. From the Welsh School of Architecture, he obtained a PhD, and he went on to become a senior lecturer there. From 2004 to 2009, he was Professor of Architecture at the

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, where he is now an

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. He currently resides in Cardiff.

Work

Unwin has written several books about architecture: *''An Architecture Notebook: Wall'' (2000) *''Doorway'' (2007) *''Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect'' (2012) *''Analysing Architecture'' (fourth edition, 2014) *''Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'' (2015; first published in 2010 as ''Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'') *''The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes'' (2016) *''Children as Place-makers: The Innate Architect in All of Us'' (2019) *''Curve: Possibilities and Problems with Deviating from the Straight in Architecture'' (2019) *''Metaphor: An Exploration of the Metaphorical Dimensions and Potential of Architecture'' (2019) In ''Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand'', he analyses the following buildings:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Unwin, Simon Architects from Yorkshire British architecture writers Alumni of the Welsh School of Architecture Academics of the University of Dundee 1952 births Living people