John Hill
@archidose.bsky.social
Architect, editor in chief at World-Architects, architectural tour guide, author of 7 books including "Buildings in Print," and I have a weekly newsletter about architecture books: https://archidose.substack.com/
My Substack this week rounds up some summer reads—all architecture books, of course, but also all small ones you can carry around with you, not coffee table books: archidose.substack.com/p/summer-reads
Summer Reads, Or: The Virtues of Small Architecture Books
Architecture Books – Week 27/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "Undercover Architect: Townhouse Design-Build in Harlem NY," by Christian Volkmann, published by Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers: archidose.substack.com/p/a-book-len...
A Book-Length Argument for Design-Build
Architecture Books – Week 26/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "A Builder’s Life Done Well: The Story of Prutting + Co." by David L. Prutting, published by Images Publishing Group: archidose.substack.com/p/from-a-bui...
From a Builder's Perspective
Architecture Books – Week 25/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is “Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House." The book was edited by Iker Gil, has photographs by James Florio, and was published by MAS Context. archidose.substack.com/p/a-radial-m...
Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is “Out There: New Architecture Across America" by Robert Ivy, Cathleen McGuigan and Peter MacKeith, published by @merrellpublishers.bsky.social archidose.substack.com/p/where-arch...
Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is “Unfinished Atlas: 19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects,” edited by Ludovic Balland, Francesca Mautone and Manuel Herz, published by Park Books: archidose.substack.com/p/a-monograp...
A Monograph by Any Other Name
Architecture Books – Week 22/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is “Henley Halebrown: Building for Society 2010–2022” by Tom Neville, Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown, published by Lund Humphries: archidose.substack.com/p/beautiful-...
Beautiful Backdrops
Architecture Books – Week 21/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is “Architecture in a Rapidly Changing World,” by Ralph Johnson of Perkins&Will, published by Images Publishing: archidose.substack.com/p/two-volume...
Two Volumes, One Architect
Architecture Books – Week 20/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "BIG Atlas," the latest monograph on BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, published by @phaidonpress.bsky.social archidose.substack.com/p/the-world-...
The World of BIG
Architecture Books – Week 19/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago" by Will Quam, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social archidose.substack.com/p/chicago-ci...
Chicago: City on the Bake
Architecture Books – Week 18/2026
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My newsletter this week heads to Mexico City, specifically Luis Barragán's last project, Gilardi House, with "Gilardi House: Barragan’s Last Witness" by José Luis Alvarez Tinajero and Martín Luque Pérez, published by Actar: archidose.substack.com/p/a-visit-to...
A Visit to Gilardi House
Architecture Books – Week 17/2026
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Book of the Week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "Puzzling Assemblies," a new monograph on LA's Oyler Wu Collaborative, published by ORO Editions: archidose.substack.com/p/puz-zli-ng...
PUZ ZLI NGA SSE MBL IES
Architecture Books – Week 16/2026
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The Book of the Week in my newsletter is "Housing Loops: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity and Fraternity" by the a+t research group (Javier Mozas and Aurora Fernández Per): archidose.substack.com/p/take-a-rid...
Take a Ride on the 'Housing Loops'
Architecture Books – Week 15/2026
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Instead of one Book of the Week in my newsletter, this week there are six, all united by me hearing about them and receiving them via their authors, rather than their publishers: archidose.substack.com/p/books-rece...
Books Received and Noted
Architecture Books – Week 14/2026
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This week, A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books features OMA partner Reinier de Graaf’s "Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto," published this week by @versobooks.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/14-recomme...
14 Recommendations Toward a New Architecture
Architecture Books – Week 13/2026
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For my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter this week, I read "Strange Buildings," the latest by Uketsu: archidose.substack.com/p/an-archite...
An Architect Reads Uketsu
Architecture Books – Week 11/2026
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This week in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter are two books that continue two ongoing series: "Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 3 2010–2020" (MACK) & "Typology: Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV" (Park Books): archidose.substack.com/p/next-insta...
Next Installments
Architecture Books – Week 10/2026
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This week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal," by photographer James Florio, published by MAS Context. The 3-volume publication features photographs of Ensamble Studio's "Inverted Portal" at Tippet Rise. archidose.substack.com/p/7-winters-...
This week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s latest book, "All the Queens Gardens: Everyday Landscaping in New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough," recently published by Jovis: archidose.substack.com/p/form-follo...
Form Follows Ficus
Architecture Books – Week 8/2026
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"We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture," written by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley and published by Lars Müller Publishers, is atop my newsletter this week: archidose.substack.com/p/the-future...
The Future Is Microbial
Architecture Books – Week 7/2026
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This week my A Weekly Dose of Architecture features "An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self," the 2024 autobiography by Sam Hall Kaplan, who served as critic of architecture and urbanism at the Los Angeles Times for a dozen years: archidose.substack.com/p/the-life-o...
The Life of a Critic
Architecture Books – Week 6/2026
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This week my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter features "Connective Urbanism – New York" by KPF, published by KPF: archidose.substack.com/p/kpf-at-50
KPF at 50
Architecture Books – Week 5/2026
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This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is "MAKI OPUS," celebrating the 60th anniversary of Maki and Associates; published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social archidose.substack.com/p/maki-and-a...
Maki and Associates at 60
Architecture Books – Week 4/2026
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This week in my book newsletter is "Public Spaces, NY," a sequel to MOS's "Vacant Spaces NY," which is at the bottom of the newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/meet-me-at...
Meet Me at the Daydreaming Zone
Architecture Books – Week 3/2026
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The first post of 2026 in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter features C. G. Beck's "The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness," published by Monthly Review Press: archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...
Architectural Workers of the US, Unite
Architecture Books – Week 2/2026
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Great bibliography on American architecture of the past 250 years compiled by @hawthorne.bsky.social. Perfect for folks like me with a good background in architectural history but who are not specialists in American #architecture. #USA250 #USsemiquincentennial www.punchlistmag.com/p/american-a...
American architecture at 250: a reading list
Some resources for the semiquincentennial
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My last newsletter post of 2025 lists my top 10 from the nearly 50 books featured in it over the course of the year: archidose.substack.com/p/favorite-a...
Favorite Architecture Books of 2025
Architecture Books – Week 51/2025
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2 publications on reuse are in my newsletter this week: "Harvard Design Magazine No. 53: Reuse and Repair," edited by Jeanne Gang and Lizabeth Cohen; and "Reuse of Architectural Components" by Bailey Bestul: archidose.substack.com/p/2-publicat...
2 Publications on Reuse
Architecture Books – Week 50/2025
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This week in my newsletter is "Shelter Cookbook," edited by Leopold Banchini and Lukas Feireiss, with photographs by Dylan Perrenoud and an interview with Lloyd Kahn: archidose.substack.com/p/cooking-up... @spectorbooks.bsky.social
Posting this only because of the photo they put atop the article: the POPS at 60 Wall Street designed by Kevin Roche that was recently demolished. Odd choice, I think. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/wha...
Vital City | What Mamdani Gets Wrong About Severe Mental Illness & Crisis Response
Mayor Eric Adams’ senior advisor on the topic has some thoughts on the incoming mayor’s plans for a new Department of Community Safety.
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