On being an author:
Writertime urges the student to ask 'why did the author write this book?'
This author answers the question:
"I write books to explain importance and meaning. Students need to study lasting works in order to understand why they have endured."
Books by Carter Wiseman
- Writing Architecture (Trinity University Press, 2014)
- Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style, a Life in Architecture (W. W. Norton, 2007)
- A Place for the Arts (ed., The MacDowell Colony, 2006)
- I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture (Harry N. Abrams, 2001)
- Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers (W. W. Norton, 2000).
Carter Wiseman has also contributed to: The United Nations at 70 (Rizzoli, 2015); I. M. Pei: Complete Works (Rizzoli, 2008); New Makers of Modern Culture (Routledge, 2007), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Architecture (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004)