Place Matters

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, author and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught at five universities over 32 years, and in his 40 years of architectural practice he has realized 25 buildings. Among the twenty books he has authored are The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple: Economy as Ethic (2017), Marcel Breuer (2016), Steven Holl (2015), Aldo van Eyck (2015), Herman Hertzberger (2015), Alvar Aalto (2014), Carlo Scarpa (2013), Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (2012), Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience (with Juhani Pallasmaa, 2012), Louis I. Kahn (2005) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1997).