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Win a copy of 'Buildings in Print,' a new book that compiles 100 of the most 'influential' and 'inspiring' illustrated architecture books

2022-06-02T11:05:00-04:00

Longtime Archinectors will surely recognize the name John Hill as the writer behind one of the oldest architecture blogs on the internet, A Daily Dose of Architecture (changed to A Daily Dose of Architecture Books in 2019). In addition to 23 years of covering architecture and related books online, John has also authored a number of books covering a wide variety of architectural topics. That said, he is arguably one of the most qualified individuals today to author his latest title, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books.

Buildings in Print, as the title gives away, is a top-100 list of carefully curated print titles, from Corb's 1923 Vers une architecture to Reinier de Graaf's 2017 Four Walls and a Roof. Consider it a cheat sheet for building the ultimate architectural library.

The book is broken down into nine categories of books: manifestos, histories, education, houses & housing, monographs (architects), monographs (buildings), exhibitions...

Goodbye to "A Daily Dose of Architecture"; Hello to "A Daily Dose of Architecture Books"

2019-01-11T14:39:00-05:00

John Hill started blogging about buildings back in 1999, providing a regularly-updated single-author architecture blog for longer than anyone else I'm aware of, and I've been around the block a few times since starting Archinect in 1997. As 2019 kicks off, it looks like John is pivoting from buildings to books, as evidenced in the new format and title of his blog, "A Daily Dose of Architecture Books".

The new blog replaces his two previous blogs, "A Daily Dose of Architecture" (2004-2018) and "A Weekly Dose of Architecture" (1999-2014). The new blog will feature a book review every day, in a rigid structure consisting of title, author, publisher, date, cover image, publication details, publisher description, photos of page spreads, author bio, referral links, and commentary about the book by the author.

To source, read, vet and review a book every day, even if it's rather brief, as it tends to be with his first few reviews, is quite an impressive feat. Hopefully he'll keep this up...

John Hill opines on the highly debatable recent article "What Starbucks Gets that Architects Don’t"

2013-10-24T17:21:00-04:00

Is it necessary to poll hundreds of coffee drinkers to determine that round tables "protect self-esteem for those...flying solo"? Or could an architect have come to the same determination by believing their impression that round tables work better in some environments than square tables, be it by observing patrons at a local cafe or in a public park, or by choosing a round table over a square one themselves?

To read the commentary on this article here on Archinect, go here.

Buildings That Lie About Their Age

2013-04-19T20:10:00-04:00

John Hill’s book “A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture” is filled with examples of the crazy new forms of the last decade, like Frank Gehry’s white wind-filled “sail” on the West Side Highway in Chelsea. [...] And yet, the United States is in the middle of a great revival of traditional architecture — Georgian, neo-Classical, Arts and Crafts and so forth — that is almost absent from Mr. Hill’s stimulating and enjoyable work. So, what isn’t contemporary about traditional design?

John Hill, celebrating New York one building at a time

2011-12-09T17:19:30-05:00

This is John Hill’s element, and these are his people. Hill has begun to emerge, in the past five years or so, as one of New York’s great architectural communicators, an exquisitely informed tour guide for the layman design enthusiast. His main platform has been his website, A Daily Dose of Architecture, which, if it does not quite stand astride the world of design blogs, nevertheless lords over a small sub-fiefdom of largely unstaffed, noncommercial sites.