Welcome to Archsoc.com

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What we do

Welcome to the site of the world's greatest living architectural sociologist, Dr Garry. Titter ye not! This is serious.

Dr Garry's admittedly pretentiously named Key Centre for Architectural Sociology conducts research into architects and society, architectural history, education, and the architecture schools.

The Key Centre's research rankings of the world's architecture schools are considered authoritative (as well as being free: eat your heart out, DesignIntelligence).

Here can you read a whole ton of essays, as shown on our site map, about architecture and its place in society, and architectural education.

Dr Garry is one of the few people in the world with degrees in both architecture and sociology. Actually, Garry does not know of anyone else on the planet with degrees in both, but he is happy to assume that there is at least one more person similarly educated.

The Centre receives no funding from and is therefore independent of government, the architecture profession, and the architecture schools.

The Centre conducts serious research, but in a light-hearted way. It's a one-man operation, and has adopted its pompous name as a satirical take on all those other academic one-man operations that are pretending not to be.

Where to now?

You can click on the buttons to the right to go places, or you can click on one of these to start off with:

• A brief FAQ about the Key Centre.
• Key Centre site map and index: All the essays and information about architects we have here.
• About Dr Garry.
• Garry's policy on giving talks or writing papers for journals.