Docomomo US has released a list of the best architectural books on heritage and modernism published in the United States in 2022.
The Visionary Life of Buckminster
Inventor of the Future
Fuller
Alec Nevala-Lee
Dey Street Books, 2022
Lina Bo Bardi
Material Ideologies
Monica Ponce de Leon (Ed.), Contributions by: Jane Hall, Sol Camacho, Beatriz Colomina, Joana França, Mario Gandelsonas, Veronika Kellndorfer, Rafaela Mendes Ferreira, Silvana Rubino, Elena Tinacci, Mike Cooter, Isaac Julien, Zeuler Lima, and Cathrine Veikos
Princeton University Press, 2022
Walter Gropius,
an Illustrated Biography
Magnus Englund and Leyla Daybelge
Phaidon, 2022
Ron Thom, Architect
The Life of a Creative Modernist
Adele Weder
Greystone Books, 2022
Alfred Preis Displaced
The Tropical Modernism of the Austrian Emigrant and Architect of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor
Axel Schmitzberger (Ed.), with contributions from Laura McGuire, Stephen Phillips and August Sarnitz
Doppelhouse Press, 2022
The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture
John Lobell
Routledge, 2022
Agadir
Building the Modern Afropolis
Tom Avermaete and Maxime Zaugg (Eds.)
Park Publishing, 2022
Hamptons Modern
Contemporary Living on the East End
David Sokol
Monacelli Press, 2022
Bangkok Utopia
Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910-1973
Xing Ruan and Ronald G Knapp (Eds.), Lawrence Chua (Author)
University of Hawaii Press, 2021
Southeast Asian Modern
From Roots to Contemporary Turns
Peter G. Rowe and Yun Fu
Birkhäuser, 2022
Queer Spaces
An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell (Eds.)
Riba Publishing, 2022
Transforming the Irvine Ranch
Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan
H. Pike Oliver and C. Michael Stockstill
Routledge, 2022
Common Ground
Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles
Frances Anderton
Angel City Press, 2022
Territories of Faith
, Religion, Urban Planning
and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe
Sven Sterken and Eva Weyns (Eds.)
Leuven University Press, 2022
Modern Buildings in Britain
A Gazeteer
Owen Hatherley
Penguin, 2021
The Office of Good Intentions
Human(s) Work
Florian Idenburg and Leeann Suen, photography by Iwan Baan
Taschen, 2022
Building for Change
The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Gestalten and Ruth Lang (Eds.)
Gestalten, 2022
When Eero Met His Match
Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect
Eva Hagberg
Princeton University Press, 2022
Bauhaus
A Graphic Novel
Valentina Grande, illustrations by Sergio Varbella
Prestel Publishing, 2022
What is Architecture?
Atianna J. Cordova
Water Block Kids, 2022
Shapes, Lines and Light
My Grandfather’s American Journey
Katie Yamasaki
Norton Young Readers, 2022
Brutalist Paris
Robin Wilson, photography by Nigel Green
Blue Crow Media, 2022
Miracles in Concrete
Structural Engineer August Komendant
Carl-Dag Lige
Birkhäuser, 2022
G.E. Kidder Smith Builds
The Travel of Architectural Photography
Angelo Maggi, foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino, epilogue by Samuel Pujol Smith
Oro Editions, 2022