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John Hill

@archidose.bsky.social

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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: archidose.substack.com

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This week's A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter features the two-volume "New England Architectural Guide," by Sam Gurwitt, edited by Natascha Meuser and Philipp Meuser, with additional contributions by Dietrich Neumann, published by DOM Publishers: archidose.substack.com/p/a-new-engl...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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Summer Reads, Or: The Virtues of Small Architecture Books

Architecture Books – Week 27/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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...

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A Book-Length Argument for Design-Build

Architecture Books – Week 26/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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...

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From a Builder's Perspective

Architecture Books – Week 25/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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...

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A Monograph by Any Other Name

Architecture Books – Week 22/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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-...

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Beautiful Backdrops

Architecture Books – Week 21/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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...

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Two Volumes, One Architect

Architecture Books – Week 20/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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-...

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The World of BIG

Architecture Books – Week 19/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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...

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Chicago: City on the Bake

Architecture Books – Week 18/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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...

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A Visit to Gilardi House

Architecture Books – Week 17/2026

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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...

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PUZ ZLI NGA SSE MBL IES

Architecture Books – Week 16/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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...

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Take a Ride on the 'Housing Loops'

Architecture Books – Week 15/2026

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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Books Received and Noted

Architecture Books – Week 14/2026

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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...

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14 Recommendations Toward a New Architecture

Architecture Books – Week 13/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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...

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An Architect Reads Uketsu

Architecture Books – Week 11/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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...

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Next Installments

Architecture Books – Week 10/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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-...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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...

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Form Follows Ficus

Architecture Books – Week 8/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"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...

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The Future Is Microbial

Architecture Books – Week 7/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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...

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The Life of a Critic

Architecture Books – Week 6/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

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Architecture Books – Week 5/2026

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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...

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Maki and Associates at 60

Architecture Books – Week 4/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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...

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Meet Me at the Daydreaming Zone

Architecture Books – Week 3/2026

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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...

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Architectural Workers of the US, Unite

Architecture Books – Week 2/2026

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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...

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American architecture at 250: a reading list

Some resources for the semiquincentennial

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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...

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Favorite Architecture Books of 2025

Architecture Books – Week 51/2025

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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...

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2 Publications on Reuse

Architecture Books – Week 50/2025

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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...

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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.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Wanna buy an architecture-book lover a gift that's not an architecture book? Here are some suggestions I cobbled together: archidose.substack.com/p/gifts-for-...

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Gifts for People Who Read Architecture Books*

*Gifts that are nearly everything BUT architecture books

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Book of the Week in my newsletter is "Design for Construction: Tectonic Imagination in Contemporary Architecture" by Eric Höweler, published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social: archidose.substack.com/p/what-is-te...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The book in my newsletter this week is "Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton" by James Christen Steward, with contributions by Paul Goldberger, Ron McCoy, and Mark Stevens: archidose.substack.com/p/a-princeto...

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A Princeton Renaissance

Architecture Books – Week 47/2025

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso's "New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side," pictured, is great. Its balance of sociology, history, etc., plus its clarity of writing, has made it one of the most helpful books in my understanding of 21C NYC.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And important to Trump that the bathroom he renovated overlooks the future ballroom. (Also note that the photo was taken before the East Wing demolition but posted after.)

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My newsletter this week features "Archigram: The Magazine," the new facsimile edition of all nine and a half issues of Archigram, originally printed between 1961 and 1974: archidose.substack.com/p/unboxing-a...

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Unboxing Archigram

Architecture Books – Week 45/2025

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Not at all surprising to hear this news. I wouldn't put it past Trump to put McCrery back on the commission so the architect can approve his own design for the ballroom.

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The sixth and final installment in Robert A.M. Stern's magisterial New York series is out this week, so of course "New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century" is Book of the Week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books: archidose.substack.com/p/20-years-o...

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20 Years of NYC Architecture Across 1500 Pages

Architecture Books – Week 44/2025

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Solar panels are great and all, and putting them on the roof of a parking garage makes perfect sense, but maybe those added to the Princeton University garage designed by Machado and Silvetti in the 90s could have been respectful of the original cornice expression—now lost beneath dark roof.

Google Street View screenshot of parking garage at Princeton University, 2019

Google Street View screenshot of parking garage at Princeton University, 2023, with solar panels added at the top level.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled

Washington Post editorial:
In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Lets give ourselves pats on our backs, architectural media! "To me, it’s just a building," says Annabelle Collins, one of seven voters the Times spoke to about the White House and Trump tearing down the East Wing: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

‘To me, it’s just a building,’ says Annabelle Collins, 37, Mercedes, Texas, about the White House

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Maybe the White House should be adorned like this now that the East Wing is "dead," killed by Trump. 1881 photo, on the occasion of James A. Garfield's death, found in "The White House and Its Thirty-Four Families" by Amy La Follette Jensen (McGraw-Hill, 1965).

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The floor plan accompanying the latest Times story (gift link) on the Trump ballroom labels it as 1,350 seats or 2,225 standing room capacity. That is quite a cozy seating layout! I never worked food service, but I imagine that would be hell to serve at full capacity. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A floor plan of the Trump ballroom held by the man himself. Rotated 90 degrees so labeling can be read.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"The studio also emphasised the use of 97 per cent of materials from the previous structure." Seems like the word "use" is doing a lot of work in that statement. www.dezeen.com/2025/10/21/2...

Foster + Partners completes New York skyscraper for JPMorganChase

Foster + Partners has completed a stepped supertall skyscraper in Manhattan for American financial company JPMorganChase, emphasising its unique base.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Now that Trump's ballroom has moved from renderings to bulldozers, ethics is rising above issues of architectural style. So Michael J. Crosbie's interview with Thomas Fisher, author of numerous books on architecture and ethics, is worth reading. commonedge.org/would-you-wo...

Would You Work for Trump?

His White House ballroom project would be an ethically thorny project for any architect.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Book of the Week in my architecture books newsletter is "Calder Gardens: Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog," published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers on the occasion of the titular institution's recent opening: archidose.substack.com/p/lines-of-u...

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Lines of Uncertainty and Doubt—and Enthusiasm

Architecture Books – Week 43/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm a big fan of Robert Bolick's "Books on Books" blog, and every so often there's a post directly related to architecture, as in "Alphabet City" and, to a lesser degree, "Big School," both by Scott Teplin. books-on-books.com/2025/10/14/b... If you like those, scroll down to "Further Reading."

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Books On Books Collection – Scott Teplin

Alphabet City (2009) Alphabet City (2009) Scott Teplin Bolted folio. H270 x W360 mm. [29] pages. Edition of 26, of which this is L. Acquired from the artist, April 2023. Photos: Books On Books Coll…

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This week in my Substack newsletter: "Smaller Architecture" by Michael Meredith, the first title in Architecture Exchange's "Memo Books" series: archidose.substack.com/p/a-10-minut...

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A 10-Minute Read*

Architecture Books – Week 42/2025