What this site is about

This is the website of Dr Garry, the world's second-greatest living architectural sociologist. There are three main sections:

• At his Key Centre for Architectural Sociology you can find information and biased opinions on the architecture profession and the world's architecture schools: for free!
• At his Garry's Games Research Fellowship you can download historical strategy games that are used by history teachers and played by grognards everywhere: for free!
• Dr Garry loves science and history. At his Garry's Charts section you can download some great science charts; and charts of the Old Testament kings, the Presidents of the USA, the Roman emperors, and the Christian liturgical year, amongst others.

Quick links

• Our research ranking of the world's architecture schools.
• So, you want to be an architect? Our FAQ about the schools and the profession
• The world's most pungent critique of all things architectural: Dr Garry's Key Centre for Architectural Sociology at archsoc.com. All the good oil about the economics of architecture and all about the schools.
• The Garry's Games Research Fellowship free historical boardgames for all the family. Here you can find historical board games used throughout the world that not only teach history to kiddies, but are are fun for adults, too.

About Dr Garry

Dr Garry is the world's second-greatest living architectural sociologist. No, really. Just ask anyone. Click here to find out what architectural sociology is. If you walk away from that experience unconvinced about Dr Garry's claim, we shall … well, do nothing, actually.

Dr Garry is an Aussie who spent 15 years as an academic at architecture schools in Australia and the United States, and then migrated into the real world. He is the author of three books published in the United States and the United Kingdom on computer-aided design; mathematics; and sociology. They have been translated into four languages. Maybe five or six.

Since no one actually wants to pay him to be a global living treasure, Dr Garry now works in the IT industry, where he gets to experience the realities of the private sector, and some dollops of the public sector.

Every so often Dr Garry gets asked to give lectures in his native Australia or overseas, but to really keep his academic hand in, Garry runs the Key Centre for Architectural Sociology. This conducts research into architects and society, architectural history, education, and the architecture schools. Many more people have read his works from his website than they ever did from his many academic articles and books.

He is best known, though, as the designer of several popular historical family boardgames, available for free download. They are now available in more languages than his books.

Dr Garry thinks this is a fine heritage. He would rather be known for giving so much entertainment to people through these games, than edification through his academic works.