Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live. Among the buildings are a school in Mass., a hospital in Rwanda, a prison in Norway, and a lighthouse in Maine. Intriguing!
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Looking forward to getting this. I have been fascinated by architecture since reading the Devil in White City which is as much a book about that as it is about a serial killer, if you haven't read it. Who am I kidding, it probably goes back to the Brady Bunch.
Anyway, on a totally different subject, cars, here is a great book I thought of when reading about this book: Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in 15 Cars.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/engines-of-change-a-history-of-the-american-dream-in-fifteen-cars-ingrassia-paul/cf7037f262be22cf?ean=9781451640649&next=t
You might like the three-book series Makers of Modern Architecture by Martin Filler. I found it gripping, even as a non-practitioner
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