Being An Architect Author:Ian Ritchie With an international reputation for innovative architecture, art, engineering, industrial design, applied science, and urban planning, Ian Ritchie Architects is the least predictable of contemporary practices. Being: An Architect is the autobiography of the founder of this unique collaborative firm. With refreshing frankness, Ritchie describes... more » both the pleasures and the struggles of making architecture in the real world. An in-depth commentary by the architectural critic Roger Connah explores Ritchie?s achievements, his dynamic mode of working, and the unusual position that he occupies at both the center and the vanguard of architecture today.« less