Peter Carl, Ugly Truth, Ideal Beauty?

After a Master of Architecture – MArch at Princeton University, Peter Carl did two years of research at the American Academy Rome, then taught design and the history and philosophy of architecture at the University of Kentucky (two years), the University of Cambridge (30 years), London Metropolitan University (seven years), and two years as a guest professor at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard. He has written on topics such as ornament, nature and culture, the phenomenology of architecture and the city, typology, the concept of the sacred in architecture, Le Corbusier. In his retirement, he is trying to understand architecture as practical wisdom. Kentucky (two years), the University of Cambridge (30 years), London Metropolitan University (seven years), and two years as a guest professor at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard. He has written on topics such as ornament, nature and culture, the phenomenology of architecture and the city, typology, the concept of the sacred in architecture, Le Corbusier. In his retirement, he is trying to understand architecture as practical wisdom.