Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year

“Sharp, revealing, funny.”
—The Guardian

“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”
—The Economist

Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof turns this fiction on its head, offerin...