Books

Photographer Hélène Binet and co-authors Marco Iuliano and Martino Stierli have selected ten highlights – from architect Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals hotel to the Pantheon in Rome – from a new book about Binet’s work. The book features more than 170 photographs from Binet’s career and includes two critical essays based on in-depth interviews. It

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Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe. Here, he picks his 12 favourites from his Sacred Modernity book. With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptural and unique forms of some of the churches built in the post-war

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A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. Phipps’ visual exploration of modernism in Wales follows six other publications by the London-based artist capturing post-war architecture in Britain, including Brutal North and Brutal London.

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The recently released 100 Women: Architects in Practice book showcases the work of 100 architects from around the world. Here, the authors pick 10 that have never before been featured in Dezeen. Launched this month, 100 Women: Architects in Practice was written by academics Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder and Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft,

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British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper talks Dezeen through eight images from his latest book, Building Stories, including a spooky skiing resort, nuclear missile control centre and Steve Jobs’ childhood home. Published by the Danish Architectural Press, Building Stories is filled with photographs that contrast with typical architecture imagery. Wiper’s aim is to “bring viewers into

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Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson’s book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. “These mid-century modern embassies were built as a billboard for democracy,” Peterson told Dezeen. “By the end of world war two, neoclassicism

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