The Architect

Author - James Williamson ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Cold Tree Press was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book The Architect by Cold Tree Press. This is more than an entertaining novel. This intriguing story is a primer on the economic, political, social, and aesthetic realities of the modern day practice of architecture. It should be required reading for every student aspiring to enter that profession.
John McQuiston, attorney for many architects and engineers, and author of Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living¤

2) Paperback Book The Architect by Cold Tree Press. As one who constantly imagines the intrigue that surely must lurk behind the most ordinary events, I was not disappointed. The Architect is a fast paced thriller that dramatizes the professional challenges that people must endure and that tells the story of a city. I just wonder why this guy did not succumb to a heart attack or turn to the bottle?¤

3) Paperback Book The Architect by Cold Tree Press. A fascinating novel written through the eyes of a talented architect details the reality of getting well-designed buildings built in a typical mid-America, small, historic city. He contends with waffling building committees, greedy developers, over reaching civic commissions, and a construction manager cutting corners to increase his profit. Along the way he is aided by enlightened clients, friends, and a liturgical consultant as he navigates through the minefields of architectural practice. It all climaxes in a riveting unexpected event. The book is beautifully written as the author paints complex situations and the politics of architectural practice with insightful prose and rich detail. When my wife starting reading this engrossing novel she thought that there were too many duplicitous characters trying to submarine the design and construction of the protagonist´s well designed, environmentally sensitive buildings. As an architect with a small practice I thought just the opposite. This wonderful novel actually gives fascinating insights into the real challenges and cast of characters that are part of the design and construction of innovative architecture. While the novel is 362 pages, I wish that it were longer. I enjoyed the book immensely.¤

4) Paperback Book The Architect by Cold Tree Press. When this architect from Memphis, Tennessee, set out to write a novel, he plainly followed the old advice for new authors to "write what you know." It´s fortunate that he did, because in "The Architect" he offers a fascinating introduction into practicing the most artistic of professions(or maybe the most professional of arts), and at the same time gives a stranger an intimate and intriguing look at life among the natives of Memphis, who claim to live in a small town disguised as a big city.
The author does so by following the protagonist as he does his work, creates his art, and solves a few problems along the way. The action moves from Faulkner country, to Elvis country, to BB King country (not difficult, as those three countries exist in the same small space), as the architect deals with a couple of real villains and disasters.
One might not think that the design and construction of several buildings in Middle America could form the basis of a good yarn, even with a couple of bad guys and a mystery. One would be mistaken, as one will keep reading and wishing "The Architect" were just a few pages longer.
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5) Paperback Book The Architect by Cold Tree Press. Struggling architect Ethan Cotham may have just won a prestigious competition to design the new Center for Southern Culture on the banks of the Mississippi River--but his troubles are only beginning. Now his unconventional ideas must survive a withering attack by the conservative Memphis Board of Design Review and the schemes of his former mentor, a bitter professional rival.

To make matters worse, Cotham must fend off the amorous advances of the ravishing but predatory director of the Brooks Museum of Art while trying to meet the pressing demands of his other clients. Not only do social climbers Roberta and Thurston Quonset have their heart set on a gargantuan trophy house, but the Bishop of North Mississippi has enmeshed his architect in a cynical web of church politics.

As work on the Center for Southern Culture finally commences, Cotham begins to suspect that his plans are being undermined--literally--by the Colonel, an unscrupulous construction manager for a huge St. Louis contractor notorious for cutting corners. Isolated and desperate to save the project and his reputation, Cotham´s only ally is the beautiful and psychic Pallie Pelham.

Written with a solid ring of authenticity, the story builds to a suspenseful and tragic climax amidst its setting in Memphis and Mississippi, a region peopled by colorful characters where the past is inevitably in conflict with the present.¤

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