The Alchemy of Architecture

Memories and Insights from Ken Tate

Ranked #86 in Artist Biography

The Alchemy of Architecture: Memoirs and Insights from Ken Tate is celebrated architect Ken Tate's creative memoir about his life in houses. Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus Mississippi where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken's upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his collegiate architectural career.

There Ken struggled to keep up with the hard-edged modernism that was being taught in school and longed to design beautiful buildings with...
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