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Howard Raggatt is a founding director of ARM. Mark Raggatt is a director at ARM.

Howard and Mark wrote a fair bit of Mongrel Rapture and Mark co-edited it. Mark cut his architectural publishing teeth as an undergraduate on Subaud magazine.

Why did you make a book about ARM?

MARK: Probably vanity and narcissism really.

HOWARD: Because no-one else was going to do it.

What’s it about?

HOWARD: I guess if people just heard that you’d done a book, they would assume it was some kind of monograph about your projects and explaining them with drawings and photos, which of course the book does have, but it’s not really about that.

It tries to be about the idea of architecture I suppose, using the buildings as examples.

MARK: It’s a bit like a novel in that when someone asks you what it’s about there are the basic events—the things that happened—and then there are the themes that the book