2024-11-21T12:55:17-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150188379/paulette-singley-helps-us-understand-how-to-read-architecture Paul Petrunia 2020-03-06T12:58:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f6/f6a26a4dcab86db63295240ca02b76a0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>On this episode of Archinect Sessions Donna, Ken and I are joined by <a href="https://woodbury.edu/faculty/paulette-singley/" target="_blank">Paulette Singley</a>. Paulette is a respected architectural historian, educator and author. Her writing and editing expands beyond the world of architecture, looking at connections within the culinary arts and film. In today's conversation we&rsquo;re focusing on her latest book "<a href="https://amzn.to/2TPC1po" target="_blank">How to Read Architecture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment,</a>&rdquo; a must read for architecture students, architects, designers and admirers of the built world.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/42/42e64f204f4df15cc53086d0ab051fd2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/42/42e64f204f4df15cc53086d0ab051fd2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p></figure><p>The book's publisher, <a href="https://www.routledge.com/" target="_blank">Routledge</a>, describes the book as exploring three essential ways to help understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture.&nbsp;<br></p> <p>Consistent with Singley's approach to looking at architecture from outside of the traditional compartmentalization, this book coalesces related fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design,&nbsp; exploring concepts of&nbsp;<em>ter...</em></p>