Iconic Buildings: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Most Remarkable Architecture

This enchantingly illustrated volume showcases iconic structures from the world's most important and architecturally interesting cities, sure to appeal to enthusiastic amateurs, aspiring architects, and even professionals. This book features unique visual profiles of the world's most iconic buildings, from twenty-five of the most important and visited cities. With remarkably detailed line drawings elegantly rendered in black and white, these captivating artworks and accompanying text help the reader learn the history of each structure and understand what makes them so visually and culturally iconic.

With the aim of exploring and communicating the deeper qualities of architecture, looking at it from new angles and presenting it in fresh and engaging ways, the illustrations are distinctive and stylish, inspired by Studio Esinam's Landmarks and Elevations print series. Among the buildings included are global icons such as New York's Chrysler Building, London's St Paul's Cathedral, and the Sydney Opera House, alongside lesser-known but equally remarkable structures such as Paris's Centre Pompidou or Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.