Selected Writings of Malcolm Quantrill. The Ark of Architecture is both a reader and a re-reader of an acute architectural eye and mind. Malcolm Quantrill, fedora-user, bon vivant, architectural scholar and wanderer extraordinaire has held an unusual place in architectural scholarship over the last 50 years. He has taught architecture and travelled extensively, from London to Finland, from Oman to Montana, becoming the first Distinguished Professor in Architecture at Texas AM University. Quantrills texts move effortlessly from the literary to the architectural as he explores some of the more unusual drivers behind Modern