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Pen Drawings of Architecture

The City out my Window is a sweet book about architectural views. The author, Matteo Pericoli, is an architect and a writer. He chose 63 New Yorkers to interview and to enter their apartments, so he could draw the view from their windows. The drawings are in pen and ink, done with great detail. The […]

Frankly, A Good Architecture Book

[amazon_link id=”0870708937″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]Young Frank, Architect, written and illustrated by Frank Viva, is a story about a young man who wants to be an architect but his grandfather is skeptical. They take a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has a big architecture department, and learn about architects past and […]

A Great Architecture Book

[amazon_link id=”0547238924″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]This book, titled “If you Lived Here: Houses of the World” [amazon_link id=”0547238924″ target=”_blank” ]”If You Lived Here: Houses of the World”[/amazon_link] has fantastic illustrations. They are collages that are intricate, accurate and colorful, and in real life they are 3-D. Houses of the world includes structures from Spain, South Africa, Canada […]