The College of Design and School of Architecture & Environment is hosting an author talk from emeritus professor, Howard Davis, about his latest book, Encounters with Architecture: Insights from a Hundred Places. Davis's latest book meditates on his personal insights that have come visiting one hundred places over several decades. Davis writes poetically about everything from the mundane to the famous, with some of the sights emblematic of beauty, some the product of fine craftsmanship, some active, and some quiet, but all memorable. The story unfolds chronologically, relaying Davis's encounters with buildings and places as a child in New York, leading the reader down a path through history to end with his most recent architectural experience as a seasoned professor, scholar, and traveler.
Davis is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Oregon. He specializes in issues of culture and place in architecture, teaching a basic course on this focus, along with design studios at beginning and advanced levels. The photographs in the book, chosen from tens of thousands taken over many years, help support the ideas described in the text. He is also the author of The Culture of Building, Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life, and Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production.