The Alchemy of Architecture by Duke Tate

The Alchemy of Architecture by Duke Tate

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 soul. Thus, his quest began leading him to Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama where he found what he was looking for in two professors, Jim Jones and Lewis Lanter, who began mentoring him. That tutelage led him to write his thesis Architecture in Search of a Soul. Following graduation from Auburn, Ken journeyed to work for the eccentric talent Bruce Goff in Texas and afterwards for Sambo Mockbee in Jackson, Mississippi.

He established his own firm, Ken Tate Architect, in 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi which began a lifelong career for designing houses in an alchemical way where truth, beauty and an inner essence was distilled into them. Full of rich detail and texture, the book follows Ken's 35-year career of soul from Jackson to New Orleans and onto Palm Beach where the firm has opened their second office.

Covering his approach to design, how architecture relates to cinema and photography, advice, reflections and even epiphanies, the book is a must read for any fan of the profession. Features many black and white photos taken over Ken's life and career.

Tate, Duke: - Duke Tate was born in Flowood, Mississippi in 1980 to Ken and Charme Tate. He is married to the lovely Wiphawan Tate and the couple have two sons, Chirayu and Phiraphat. The author of 12 books in 4 languages, his book The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate was released in 2020 and selected for The Times Literary Supplement's 2020 Books of the Year List. It has also been featured in Mississippi Magazine's Heritage & Culture section, The Clarion Ledger and The What We Are Reading Today section of the mass circulated Arab News. Selected by Amazon as a Great on Kindle book, it is a #1 Bestseller in the Architectural Firm category, and has reached #1 in three additional categories. Duke attended high school at the Kent School, located in the lush Housatonic valley of Connecticut. His constant essay writing in his English classes there eventually shaped him into the writer he is now. Duke penned his first novel, The Opaque Stones, in 2014. After many subsequent edits, it has since been re-released as The Pearlmakers Trilogy. He has since gone on to to write three books about his time studying under Sufi masters in The Tradition, called the My Big Journey series. He has also written two fantasy adventure novellas in his Big John series. He likes to write about magical realism, life, spirituality, and health. He lives in Thailand for part of the year with his amazing wife, their sons, and their dog, Sugar.

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ISBN 13	9781951465032
ISBN 10	1951465032
Title	The Alchemy of Architecture
Author	Duke Tate
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearl Press
Year published	2020-01-09
Number of pages	160
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