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Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Non-fiction (Art, Design and Architecture)
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Zoomorphic: New Animal Architecture (Laurence
King, 2003)
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Corporate Identity (Lund Humphries, 1994)
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World Design: Nationalism and Globalism in Design
(Rizzoli, 1992)
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King and Miranda: The Poetry of the Machine
(Fourth Estate/Wordsearch, 1991)
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Hollington Industrial Design (ADT Press, 1990)
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New American Design (1988)
Non-fiction (Popular
Science)
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Findings: Hidden Stories in First-Hand Accounts
of Scientific Discovery (Lulox, 2005) 9780954898007
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The Most Beautiful Molecule: An Adventure in
Chemistry (Aurum, 1994)
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The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the
Buckyball (Wiley, 1995)
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Panicology (Viking Penguin, 2008) 9780670917013
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Biography
Hugh Aldersey-Williams is a writer and curator with interests
ranging from science to design and architecture. He lives with his
family in North Norfolk.
During the mid-1980s Hugh lived in the United States, where he began
his freelance career and in 1988 published his first book, New
American Design. He followed this with a cheap round-the-world plane
trip and a more general exploration of culture entitled World
Design: Nationalism and Globalism in Design (1992).
Among many journalistic activities, Hugh was the design critic of
the New Statesman for five years until 2000. Meanwhile, his training
as a scientist was at last put to use in writing The Most Beautiful
Molecule (1994), the story of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of
buckminsterfullerene, a molecular form of the element carbon.
More recently, Hugh has curated two exhibitions at the Victoria and
Albert Museum: Zoomorphic in 2003 about wild new forms in
architecture (with an accompanying book), and Touch Me in 2005, an
exhibition of contemporary objects designed to engage in novel ways
with the senses. Also in 2005, Hugh published Findings: Hidden
Stories in First-Hand Accounts of Scientific Discovery, applying
techniques of literary criticism to famous scientific papers to
reveal their all too human subtexts.
Hugh is a member of the Society of Authors and the EAW and a fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts.
Links
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