Photobooks as Architectural Inspiration: Recent Releases Reviewed

Key facts

• The article is published by The Architect's Newspaper.
• It recommends recent photobooks for architects.
• The International Center of Photography in New York is showing 'Photobooks USA 2000–25'.
• Kashef Chowdhury's book documents Louis Kahn's National Assembly Building in Dhaka.
• Max Creasy's 'Bad Language' accompanied his show at the Architectural Association.
• Johan Dehlin documented five early Frank Gehry projects in 2015.
• Edward Dimendberg edited a book on Richard Neutra's Lovell Health House.
• Takashi Homma's 'Portrait of J' features SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima on the cover.
• Ian James's 'Pyramids' explores late-20th-century pyramids in North America.
• Naho Kubota's 'Foundations' documents auto body shops in New York.
• Mas Context published two single-home books: one on a Bruce Goff home and one on Casa Gomis Bertrand.
• Gili Merin's 'Analogous Jerusalem' is based on a five-year photography project.
• Aleix Plademunt photographed the Vitra campus in 2022.
• Mark Power's 'FASHION' compiles 27 years of construction photographs.
• Ari Seligmann's 'KA ME RA' profiles postwar Japanese architecture photographers.
• Jamel Shabazz's 'Prospect Park' covers 1980 to 2025.
• Daniel Shea's 'Distribution' was exhibited at the 2021 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
• Jan Staller's 'Manhattan Project' began in 2013 and includes a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
• The Houses of Guadalajara book includes photographs by César Béjar and Rafael Palacios Macías.
• Ellis Woodman's 'At Home in London: The Mews House' is the second in a series on London housing typologies.