Buildings in print: 100 influential and inspiring illustrated architecture books

This volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. Author John Hill is the founder of the influential architecture blog "A Daily Dose of Architecture," which recently shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of all kinds. His selection for this volume spans centuries, continents, and genres to include Le Corbusier’s "Towards a New Architecture," "Project Japan" by Rem Koolhaas, "Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction by Keith Krumwiede," "X-Ray Architecture" by Beatriz Colomina and Thomas Wolfe’s "From Bauhaus to Our House." The books selected are organized into the categories of Manifestos, Histories, Education, Housing, Monographs, Buildings, Exhibitions, Building Cities, and Critiques, and each one has a reproduction of the book’s cover along with selected spreads, accompanied by Hill’s informed, personal, and engaging take on what makes the title unique and indispensable.

John Hill

Prestel, 2021

29 x 24 cm, 304 pages