Adam Caruso: Feeling of Things

Adam Caruso, principal of the London-based firm Caruso St. John, has been a profoundly thoughtful and provocative voice in architecture since the mid-1990s. Through writings in The Architect’s Journal, OASE, Blueprint, and Tate, Caruso has consistently challenged the hegemony of Modernism, advocating instead for a design ethos grounded in materiality and cultural resonance.

This collection of essays, including Sigurd Lewerentz and a Material Basis for Form (1997), The Tyranny of the New(1998), and The Emotional City (2000), offers a compelling reexamination of architecture’s essence. Caruso urges us to see architecture not as a fleeting expression of contemporary trends, but as an enduring discipline—one deeply intertwined with emotion, culture, and the tactile realities of the built world.

2009, Ediciones Polígrafa, hardback, 96pp