architecturalfiction.com
is a library of novels written by an architect about the frustrations and challenges of being an architect.
Here, free of charge is a collection of fiction that I hope you'll enjoy. If you do, please tell others about this website. You may download the pdfs or read online.
The Novels:
Dying By Design
Allan Aisquith is tired of architectural compromise. He's sick of designing everything in the "colonial" style. When he gets a once-in-a-lifetime commission to design an art museum, he is determined to do it in a modernist style and is willing to murder anyone who tries to change his design.
Belfoure's satirical murder mystery consistently entertains ...
- Kirkus Discoveries
Creative Differences
Brian Halloran is a world famous modernist architect who is going to design a performing arts center on the campus of the college where his wife teaches. It means tearing down an historic building which causes an uproar. He discovers that his wife wants the building saved and has always hated his work. Their marriage falls apart and Brian is despondent. He must get away from architecture to reassess his life. He goes back to his hometown and becomes a projectionist in a porno theater and falls in love with a stripper who changes his outlook on life and architecture.
The Author:
Charles Belfoure is an architect from Westminster, MD who graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University. He is the co-author of the Batimore Rowhouse, Niernsee & Neilson: Architects of Baltimore, author of Monuments to Money: the Architecture of American Banks and Edmund G. Lind: Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore & the South. He also has written for the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun.
