Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, author, and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of many books: Grafton Architects (2018); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture: A Primer on Architecture as Experience (2012, with Juhani Pallasmaa); Louis I. Kahn (2005), and fourteen other books.