Books + Writings
BOOKS and a selection of other WRITINGS by John Hill
Updated October 2, 2024
Updated October 2, 2024
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Books:
Articles in Print Publications (2006-present):
Exhibition reviews published on World-Architects.com (2012-present):
"Studio Visits" on World-Architects.com (2012-present):
Interviews and Short Q&As on World-Architects.com (2012-present):
Other "Insights" and related long features at World-Architects.com (2012-present):
Selected articles at Houzz (2011-2013):
Articles in Online Publications (2004-2007, while I was practicing as an architect):
Academic Papers (Kansas State University, 1991-1996; City College of New York, 2006-2007):
(Links are to standalone pages on this blog with more information on each book and links to reviews, publishers, and booksellers; you can also find the books on my Amazon author page.)
- Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021)
- Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
- NYC Walks: Guide to New Architecture (Prestel, 2019)
- How to Build a Skyscraper (Firefly Books, 2017)
- 100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs (Prestel, 2017)
- 100 Years, 100 Buildings (Prestel, 2016)
- Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture (W. W. Norton, 2011)
Articles in Print Publications (2006-present):
- "A Collection of Farmhouse Gables," on the Beachside House by Roger Ferris + Partners (cover story for Swisspearl Architecture Magazine #31, 2023)
- "SOS Brutalism — Save the Concrete Monsters!" (Yale Constructs, spring 2023)
- "Head Hi is a Brooklyn destination for design publications, beverages, and cultural programming" (The Architect's Newspaper, online February 13, 2023)
- "Building Tall — Or Not At All," the main editorial in "Supertall" issue (Area n.182, May/June 2022)
- "Teaching 21st Century Technology," on the Collin College Technical Campus by Perkins + Will (cover story for Swisspearl Architecture Magazine #30, 2022)
- "Microstories: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA" (Domus magazine, September 2021)
- "Signal of Change," on the DC International School by Perkins Eastman DC (cover story for Swisspearl Architecture Magazine #28, 2019)
- "Abstracted and Minimal," on the Red Barn by Roger Ferris + Partners (cover story for Swisspearl Architecture Magazine #27, 2018)
- Book Review of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society (The Architect's Newspaper, 2015)
- "The Case for Landmark 'Bundles'" (PDF link) (CLOG: Landmark, 2015)
- "The Architecture of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York" (in Our Haus: Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the First 10 Years, ACFNY/Verlag Anton Pustet, 2013)
- Le Whitney Museum of American Art: Upside Down! – French translation of my English text (7h09 carnet d'ailleurs, 2013)
- "Photoshop Therapy" (PDF link) (CLOG: Rendering, 2012)
- Book Review of DASH: Delft Architectural Studies on Housing (The Architect's Newspaper, 2011)
- Book Review of New York Dozen: Gen X Architects by Michael J. Crosbie (Yale Constructs, Fall 2011)
- The New Age Steel (Design Today, 2011)
- API-AR 2050 (eVolo, 2010)
- Book Review of Twenty Minutes in Manhattan (The Architect's Newspaper, 2010)
- Plaza Redo, Again (The Architect's Newspaper, 2010)
- Book Review of Urban Design for an Urban Century (The Architect's Newspaper, 2009)
- Book Review of Engineered Transparency (The Architect's Newspaper, 2009)
- Of Ducks and Sheds (Architect Magazine, 2009)
- Book Review of Two NYC Guides (The Architect's Newspaper, 2009)
- Book Review of Designs on the Public (The Architect's Newspaper, 2009)
- Book Review of World's Greatest Architect (The Architect's Newspaper, 2009)
- Soldier Field Loses Landmark Status (Architecture Magazine, 2006)
- The Miniaturization of the Megalopolis (TENbyTEN, 2005)
- A Reality Dose on the Prairie (TENbyTEN, 2005)
- Recycling, Renewal, and Radicchio (TENbyTEN, 2004)
Book reviews and other book-related pieces at World-Architects.com (2012-present):
- 12 Summer Reads (July 2024)
- Six Decades of Antoine Predock's Architecture (Article on Ride monograph, April 2024)
- A Housing Roundup (Article highlighting four recently published books on housing, April 2024)
- (Re)Discovering Portaluppi (Article spurred by my discovery of two books by Milanese architect Piero Portaluppi [1888–1967] in a used bookstore's dollar bin, April 2024)
- More Than Curtains (Review of Art Applied by Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse, March 2024)
- The Anatomy of Humanise (on Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building our World, November 2023)
- Exploring the 'As Found' (on As Found: Experiments in Preservation, October 2023)
- Architects, Self-Publishing (on recently self-published books by BNIM and KPF, May 2023)
- Modeling Morphosis (on M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022) (April 2023)
- A Book of Lists (Review of Reinier de Graaf's architect, verb, March 2023)
- Total Works of Art (Review of Juha Leiviskä 2000–2022, February 2023)
- Black and White and Mies All Over (Review of Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection, January 2023)
- From Switzerland to Wisconsin: The Curious Case of New Glarus (Article on Swissness Applied, November 2022)
- From Clouds to Skyscrapers (Article on Out of the Clouds. Wolf dPrix: Sketches 1967 – 2020, September 2022)
- OMA in 1989: Review of Project Without Form (A book by Holger Schurk, August 2022)
- 15 Summer Reads (July 2022)
- BIG's Pragmatic Utopias in Detail (Review of BIG monograph, June 2022)
- Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things (Review of monograph on Archi-Tectonics, May 2022)
- Two Decades of the Open Call (Article on Celebrating Public Architecture: Buildings from the Open Call in Flanders 2000–21, March 2022)
- A Decade of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse (Review of book with essays from IntAR Journal, January 2022)
- Summer Reads (July 2021)
- Sergei Tchoban, 'Striving to create a more livable, lovable environment' (April 2021)
- A Monumental Undertaking (Review of Atlas of Digital Architecture, February 2021)
- And Formgiving Makes Three (Review of BIG monograph, January 2021)
- Tome Times Two (Review of Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture, January 2020)
- Exploring the East Village via the Swiss Institute (Review of Energies at the Swiss Institute, September 2024)
- A Grid of Light, Concrete, and ‘Bass’ (Review of Steve McQueen installation at Dia Beacon, May 2024)
- Dreams of Cities in Wood (Review of Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood at The Skyscraper Museum, March 2024)
- Inside the Artist's Studio (on An Atlas of Es Devlin at the Cooper Hewitt, November 2023
- The Portuguese Seven (on Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture at the Center for Architecture, October 2023)
- The Book in the Age of Rem Koolhaas (Or Is It the Age of Irma Boom?) (Review of The Book in the Age of ... at Harvard GSD, September 2023)
- 5 Lessons from Lesley Lokko's The Laboratory of the Future (from the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, May 2023)
- 6 Other National Pavilions (from the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, May 2023)
- Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing (April 2023)
- Modeling New Publics (February 2023)
- The Bechers at The Met (July 2022)
- Models of Independence (February 2022)
- The Tools of Reconstructions (March 2021)
- Countryside by the Numbers (November 2020)
- Eileen Gray at Bard Graduate Center (October 2020)
- The Disquieted Muses – A Remote Review (September 2020)
- How Robots Build a House (September 2019)
- Rome, the Teacher, and 'T' Space (July 2019)
- Housing, Density, and Design (June 2019)
- Perceiving Robert Irwin (September 2018)
- The Aesthetics of a Concrete Utopia (September 2018)
- Best of the (Biennale) National Pavilions (June 2018)
- Wither Architectural Representation? (May 2018)
- Image Building at Parrish Art Museum (March 2018)
- A Past That Never Was; a Future That Never Came to Be (January 2018)
- Making New History in Chicago (September 2017)
- Review: MoMA's Frank Lloyd Wright at 150 (June 2017)
- Caracas's 'Living Ruin' (May 2017)
- Learning from Noguchi's Lead (February 2017)
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro Takes on Pierre Chareau (November 2016)
- Reporting on Reporting from the Front (May 2016)
- Exhibition Review of Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist (May 2016)
- Exhibition Review: A Japanese Constellation (March 2016)
- Highlights from Global Citizen (January 2016)
- The State of the Art of Architecture at the Chicago Architecture Biennial (October 2015)
- Thomas Heatherwick's Provocations (July 2015)
- Exhibition Review: HOT TO COLD (February 2015)
- 2014 Venice Biennale: Elements of Architecture, Monditalia, Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, Collateral Events (June 2014)
- The Landscapes of Le Corbusier (June 2013)
- Biennale Architettura 2012: Part 1, Part 2, Extra (August 2012)
"Studio Visits" on World-Architects.com (2012-present):
- Dattner Architects (New York, October 2022)
- Flores & Prats (Barcelona, July 2022)
- Alloy (Brooklyn, November 2019)
- Schiller Projects (NYC, September 2019)
- Mecanoo (Delft, March 2019)
- Gensler (NYC, January 2017)
- OMA NY (NYC, July 2016)
- Ross Barney Architects (Chicago, May 2015)
- ikon.5 architects (Princeton, March 2015)
- James Corner Field Operations (NYC, November 2014)
- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (Chicago, October 2014)
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (NYC, January 2014)
- WOHA (Singapore, October 2013)
- BIG NYC (NYC, March 2013)
- OMA NY (NYC, February 2013)
- Studio Gang Architects (Chicago, January 2013)
- WEISS/MANFREDI (NYC, July 2012)
- Cannon Design (St. Louis, May 2012)
Interviews and Short Q&As on World-Architects.com (2012-present):
- Redefining Boundaries with Carlo Ratti (Interview about Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., July 2024)
- Serendipitous in Santa Barbara (Interview with Stephen Van Dyck, partner at LMN Architects, May 2024)
- Building Bridges with Chris Luebkeman (Interview with head of Strategic Foresight Hub in the Office of the President at ETH Zurich, April 2024)
- Building a Better World, from the Inside Out (Interview with Shashi Caan, CEO of IFI, January 2024)
- Amazonia in Venezia (Interview with inaugural divia award winner Marta Maccaglia, July 2023)
- 'Architecture Is a Discussion That Goes on Across Centuries' (Interview with David Hotson, February 2023)
- 'Architecture is a process of translation' (Interview with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects, May 2022)
- 'The world is changing; we have to update' (Interview with Mecanoo's Francine Houben, February 2022)
- Lou, Then and Now (Interview with Richard Saul Wurman, March 2021)
- In Conversation with Iwan Baan (Interviewed via Zoom as part of the second Architecture & the Media conference, June 2020)
- Designing Well-Being at Osar Architects (Interview with architect Enrique Aucha Gómez, May 2020)
- The Architectural Ethics of TAMassociati (Interview with Simone Sfriso and Raul Pantaleo, April 2020)
- Appraising Starchitecture (Interviews with authors Leslie Sklair and Davide Ponzini, May 2017)
- An Inside View of Hotels (Interview with IDA14's Karsten Schmidt, October 2016)
- Outside Your Comfort Zone: Eva Franch i Gilabert at the Summit (Interview with director of Storefront for Art and Architecture at Vectorworks Design Summit, May 2016)
- Architecture as a Subject for Art (Short Q&As with artists, August 2015)
- A Short Survey of Women in Architecture (Short Q&As with women architects, April 2015)
- On Architectural Models (Short Q&As with architects, November 2014)
- On Architecture in Brazil (Interview with authors of Architectural Guide Brazil, May 2014)
- Lettering Large (Interview with Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić, February 2014)
- Making Architecture Public (Short Q&As with curators, September 2013)
- A Short Survey of Architectural Publishing (Short Q&As with publishers, May 2013)
- Talking WAF (Interview with Paul Finch, April 2013)
- Viewpoints (Short Q&As with photographers, March 2013)
- Storefronts for Architects (Short Q&As with architects, September 2012)
- Curating Contemporary Architecture with Pedro Gadanho (Interview with the MoMA curator, July 2012)
- Transforming the Architecture Studio with C-BIP (Interview with Scott Marble, June 2012)
- Austrian Cultural Forum at 10 (Interview with ACFNY director Andreas Stadler, April 2012)
- Building with Megalon (Review of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, September 2024)
- A House with a Point of View (Review of Point of Origin: Building a House in Austria, film on house designed by Rem Koolhaas, January 2024)
- Watching Skin of Glass (Film review, November 2023)
- REX's PAC NYC Opens at WTC (Review of REX's Perelman Performing Arts Center, September 2023)
- Touring Brooklyn Tower (Piece on SHoP Architects' Brooklyn Tower, September 2023)
- Streaming Shelter (Review of Shelter streaming platform for architecture films, April 2023)
- My (Radical) Architect (Review of Elettra Fiumi's Radical Landscapes, November 2022)
- 'But It's a Nice Bubble' (Review of The Bubble, documentary film, June 2022)
- From Pier to Island (on Thomas Heatherwick's Little Island) (May 2021)
- The ‘BIMness’ of Vectorworks 2021 (June 2020)
- Architecture & the Media 2020 Recap (June 2020)
- The World Around NYC (January 2020)
- Manual, Digital, or Both? (June 2019)
- Material Matters (April 2019)
- Smart, Sustainable Vectorworks (March 2019)
- 'In Our Time' at The Met (and a detour to Engadin) (February 2019)
- Building Efficiency at Flansburgh Architects (January 2019)
- WAF in Amsterdam (December 2018)
- Learning at the Summit (November 2018)
- A Visit to Glenstone (September 2018)
- Five Facts from Five Seasons (July 2018)
- Parsing The Proposal (May 2018)
- 3 Masterpieces by Balkrishna Doshi (March 2018)
- 18 for '18 (January 2018)
- Winning at WAF (November 2017)
- Designing with Marionette (November 2017)
- How Allied Works Works (October 2017)
- Peter Zumthor, Beneath the Surface (February 2017)
- WTC at 15 (September 2016)
- Alejandro Aravena and the Future of the Pritzker Prize (January 2016)
- The Architecture of Libraries, Presidential and Otherwise (August 2015)
- The State of the Art in (Chicago) Architecture (April 2015)
- Building Supertall (March 2015)
- Learning from Houston's Shotgun Houses (February 2015)
- China's "Un-Weird" Architecture (October 2014)
- Surveying Today's Tech Landscape (September 2014)
- Zoos in the 21st Century (August 2014)
- Architecture Students Designing AND Building (April 2014)
- The Materials of Shigeru Ban (March 2014)
Tech Campuses - A Side-by-Side Comparison(September 2013)- Spaces for Learning (August 2013)
Architects House Themselves(April 2013)- BIM in 10 Lessons (February 2013)
- Deconstructivist Architecture, 25 Years Later (January 2013)
- The Glass House (October 2012)
- Louis Kahn's Modern Residential Masterpieces Get Coverage at Last (October 2013)
- Tour a Pioneering Beach Town That Fosters Community (October 2013)
- Dutch Architects Balance the Familiar and the Avant-Garde (September 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat (September 2013)
- 4 Zurich Projects Build on High-Rise Livability (August 2013)
- Championing the Solar House, From the 1930s to Today (August 2013)
- The Classic Gable Takes a New Turn (August 2013)
- Life Without Air Conditioning? These Passively Cooled Homes Say Yes (June 2013)
- Design Icons: Rudolph M. Schindler, Evolving Architect-Artist (June 2013)
- Design Icons: Le Corbusier, Pioneer of Modern Architecture (June 2013)
- Design Icons: Julia Morgan (June 2013)
- 'Houses of Maine' Puts Modernism in Its Place — in Nature (May 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: Edith Farnsworth House (April 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: The Glass House (March 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: Eames House (March 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: Villa Mairea (March 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: Gropius House (February 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Home: Villa Savoye (February 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: The Lovell Beach House (January 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: The Rietveld Schröder House (January 2013)
- Must-Know Modern Homes: The Robie House (December 2012)
- 8 Modern Hamptons Homes Buck Convention (December 2012)
- Book to Know: 'Long Island Modernism 1930-1980' (November 2012)
- Tracing the Deep Roots of Design (August 2012)
- 'Houses + Origins' Reveals an Architect's Process (July 2012)
- Regional Modern: L.A. Coast Homes Soak in the View (November 2011)
- Regional Modern: Stunning Innovations in Los Angeles (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: San Francisco Opens to the View (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: Northern California Architecture (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: Oregon Homes Respond to the Landscape (October 2011)
- Regional Modern Architecture: Seattle Splendor (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: Vibrant Layers of Old and New in NYC (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: Chicago's Take on Contemporary Design (October 2011)
- Regional Modern: Boston (September 2011)
- Regional Modern: Austin, Texas (September 2011)
- Modern or Contemporary: What's the Difference? (May 2011)
Book Reviews at Designers & Books (2011-2013):
- Notable Books of 2011 (9 reviews)
- Notable Books of 2012 (10 reviews)
- Notable Books of 2013 (17 reviews)
Articles in Online Publications (2004-2007, while I was practicing as an architect):
- East River Transformation (The World Edition, 2007)
- A Horned Moses No More? (NYFA Current, 2007)
- To Remember or to Forget? (NYFA Current, 2006)
- Kowloon Walled City (twenty4, 2006)
- Architecture and Blogging (AIA AssociateNews, 2005)
- Changing Place/Changing Times (Invisible Insurrection, 2004)
Academic Papers (Kansas State University, 1991-1996; City College of New York, 2006-2007):
- Jacob Javits Plaza: Reconsidering Intentions (CCNY, 2007)
- Driving is Murder (CCNY, 2006)
- Bernard Tschumi's Parc de la Villette (KSU, 1996)
- Oz Volume 18, What Will This Building Become? (As co-editor, KSU, 1996)