Architects are, by nature, storytellers; they tell stories to their clients, to each other, and occasionally to a credulous public. Typically, these are stories about what buildings can do, or how the "sense of a place" matters, or how their own professional or socio-artistic practice can deliver on such things. So what happens when no one listens? My Beautiful City Austin by the Texas architect David Heymann, and Interruption of the Cocktail Hour. A Washington Yarn of Art, Murder, and the Attempted Assassination of the President, by the Washington, D.C., architect Arthur Cotton Moore, are works of fiction and, as their titles suggest, both hit close to home-not only in terms of locale, but also in their bemused accounts of the vicissitudes of architectural practice.
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