Architecture Book Club II

SCCI Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gene Sherman AM, is joined by respected cultural leader and author, Dolla Merrillees, for a deep dive conversation exploring the relationship between architecture, storytelling and the written word. The discussion will cover biography and fictionalised history, exploring the fraught architectural interiors of World War II, America’s early twentieth-century architectural innovation and the lives of those who lived, breathed and fought for arguably the most impactful of design professions. Taking three texts, each unique in approaching the architect as author, as subject, as maker and as cultural path-finder, this conversation examines how narrative can write the cultural histories of the built environment. Merrillees and Sherman will discuss three texts in-depth: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (2007), The Man In The Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster (2018) and The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (2013).