Are you a budding critic trapped inside an architect's body?
If the answer is yes, or you simply want to have a go writing a pithy, honest review, why not join BD's Book Club.
How does it work?
All you have to do is choose the book you'd like to review from our monthly selection.
For a chance to receive a free review copy, email bdbookclub@ubm.com saying which book you'd like to review. We will pick one reader per book.
Book club
A German solution to the challenges facing the NHS
In Germany, with the privatisation of healthcare, the role of the doctor has changed in recent years to become that of “health adviser”. With this change “clients” (the new term for patients) have taken a greater responsibility for their health, and doctors have had to compete for them.
Yael Reisner's casual socialising digs deep on the subject of beauty in architecture
The glittering cast at least tells us that, for Yael Reisner, compiling Architecture and Beauty was an enviable exercise in casual socialising — visiting Venice with Cook, gabbling with Gehry in LA, even lunching in London with Woods.
Autumn 2010 titles for review
This season’s bookclub examines the early life of Pevsner, before he landed on our shores and intimate conversations with some of architecture’s best-known figures.
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Goldberger's book explores architecture's deeper meaning
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The driving force behind Maggie's Centres designs
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June 2010 titles for review
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Review:Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell. Wiley, 288 pp, £39.99
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Review: Keith Williams: Architecture of the Specific. Images publishing, 224pp, £45,
