The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture
Few architecture books dare to take on the mantle of Atlas, but “The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture” seems to comfortably wear it. The book is a sequel to Phaidon’s 2004 “Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture”—whose general outline and format the current book shares—and by looking at the measly amount of buildings that showed up in magazines between now and then, you would think that the new book would have lots of projects reprinted. Not so: almost all of the 1,037 buildings didn’t appear in the 2004 book. But when you consider the deluge of projects that have shown up online in that time, it’s nothing short of astonishing that the book encapsulates such an encyclopedic spectrum. The project covers six world regions, and many of them, like China, seem remarkably well-covered. A great holiday gift at $ 122 at Amazon.com