Bøker av Nigel Coates

A searingly honest, unvarnished personal history of oneof the UK's most versatile designers - Nigel Coates. Spanning lost loves and aprolific design career: from Tokyo bars and Liberty to the Body Zone at theMillennium Dome.

To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution.