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Phaidon · Architecture
Álvaro Siza, Duccio Malagamba
Siza at 91, choosing his own twenty. Malagamba's photographs and the architect's hand drawings together make the case for why the work still matters.
Phaidon · Architecture
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2x4 and 2 others
A studio monograph that is itself a work of design: two conjoined volumes, 792 pages, and four decades of work that refuses to stay inside architecture.
Gestalten · Architecture
Marianne Julia Strauss
A wide-angle survey of 50 sacred sites across five continents, arranged by ambition rather than faith: exactly what it is, and worth having on a table where visitors with different backgrounds will all find something familiar.
Gestalten · Architecture
Ricardo Bofill, Pablo Bofill and 3 others
A serious monograph on one of the twentieth century's most architecturally unclassifiable figures, updated with photography that earns its place alongside the buildings.
Gestalten · Architecture
Norm Architects, Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and 2 others
A Copenhagen studio documents a decade of Japan travel with real intelligence; the photographs are quieter than most architecture books, and the book is better for it.
Gestalten · Architecture
Sam Lubell
A case for American architecture as an act of resistance: 150 years of buildings that pushed back against whatever style everyone else was doing, in 288 pages of full-colour photography.
Phaidon · Design & Type
Deyan Sudjic, Karen Stein and 1 other
An authoritative account of the company that turned a Swiss shopfitter's encounter with an Eames chair in 1950 into one of the world's more consequential design operations — dense with archival material and well worth the shelf space.
Phaidon · Architecture
Tadao Ando, Richard Pare and 1 other
Nearly three decades after *The Colours of Light*, this second instalment documents Ando's mature work as Pare has always understood it — in silence, and with the light exactly where Ando intended it.