Gift Guide

18 Gifts for Architecture Buffs – 2024

Check out our collection of gifts for anyone with a love for buildings, design and great architecture.

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Never Built New York

Never Built New York

New York City as it might have been: 200 years of visionary architectural plans for unbuilt subways, bridges, parks, airports, stadiums, streets, train stations and, of course, skyscrapers

Available at Amazon.com

Arckit Architectural Modelling Kits

Arckit Architectural Modelling Kits

Creative, free-form model building system trusted and loved by architects, designers, schools and hobbyists.

Available at Amazon.com

Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers

Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers

Deluxe notebook of varied graph paper designs interspersed with engaging charts and infographics

Available at Amazon.com

Glass Drafting and Crafting Table

Glass Drafting and Crafting Table

Perfect multi-functional contemporary table, great for drafting, drawing, or crafting on its large tempered safety-glass work surface

Available at Amazon.com

Secret Stairs

Secret Stairs

A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles

Available at Amazon.com

Anglepoise Desk Lamp

Anglepoise Desk Lamp

Scaled down version of the original 1950s design classic

Available at Lumens

Finding Los Angeles By Foot

Finding Los Angeles By Foot

A book about finding what is notable, historical, quizzical and beautiful in this great city

Available at Amazon.com

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas' interpretation of the links between New York society and architecture was a sell out in its first print run

Available at Amazon.com

Frank Lloyd Wright Business Card Holder

Frank Lloyd Wright Business Card Holder

Business card holder with a design adapted from the center panel of the window triptych from the Avery Coonley Playhouse.

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Case Study Houses

Case Study Houses

An extensive and sumptuous visual record of The Case Study House program (1945-66).

Available at Amazon.com

Midcentury Houses Today

Midcentury Houses Today

A detailed examination of an extraordinary collection of modern houses built in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s

Available at Amazon.com

Fallingwater Rising: A Biography of America's Most Extraordinary House

Fallingwater Rising: A Biography of America's Most Extraordinary House

The story of the extraordinary house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937

Available at Amazon.com

Elements: A Series of 15 Books

Elements: A Series of 15 Books

A series of 15 books examining the fundamental elements of buildings and architecture

Available at Amazon.com

Sharpie: Stainless Steel Fine Point Permanent Marker

Sharpie: Stainless Steel Fine Point Permanent Marker

Premium refillable version of the classic sharpie

Available at Amazon.com

LEGO Architecture Studio

LEGO Architecture Studio

Release your inner architect and explore a world of endless creative possibilities

Available at Amazon.com

Unbuilding by David Macaulay

Unbuilding by David Macaulay

A fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building

Available at Amazon.com

Le Corbusier: A Life

Le Corbusier: A Life

The biography of one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century

Available at Amazon.com

Never Built Los Angeles

Never Built Los Angeles

A treasure trove of buildings, plans, parks and mass-transit proposals that only saw the drawing board

Available at Amazon.com

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