Reading while staying home

One of the greatest pleasures  I have in life is looking at architecture, and while I have been stuck at home, I have had the luxury of pulling out some of the books on architecture, and photography I've collected over the past 60 years.  I've also come to really respect the art some of these great artists have brought to the black-and-white photograph. 
So I offer you a few scans from some of my recent reading (or really, viewing), and hope you are doing much the same while we await a vaccine.

Photo: Timothy Hursley
House entitled "The Monument", located in Joshua Tree, California
Architect: Josh Schweitzer
from "New Forms" by Philip Jodidio
Taschen
If you want to see architecture in all it's greatness, Taschen publishers
are about the best.  They have covered everything in large, spectacularly photographed
books at very reasonable prices.

Photo: Ag. Luisa Ricciarini
Topkapi Palace, Istanbul
Major architect: Sinan
(The most famous architect in the history of Islamic art, and also the
creator of arguably the most beautiful building in the Muslim world, the Blue Mosque)
from "Royal Palaces" edited by Marcello Morelli
Barnes and Noble

Photo: Henri Stierlin
A comparison between the domes of the Blue Mosque, and its
predecessor,  and model, the Haghia Sophia, both in Istanbul.
Architect, Blue Mosque: Sinan
Architects of Haghia Sophia:  Anthemius of Tralles,  and Isidore of Miletus
Whole books have written about Haghia Sophia, which remained the largest
building in the world for centuries.  Of all the building in the world I would love to see, this is
probably No. 1, followed by the Pantheon in Rome, and St. Peter's.
from "Turkey: from the Selcuks to the Ottomans"
by Henri Stier
Taschen

Photo: Jean Roubier
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, England
from "Romanesque Art in Europe"
New York Graphic Society
Maybe only black-and-white could capture the
intense detail of such a monument.
My last planned trip to Europe was to have been to visit mostly
Romanesque cathedrals (Speyer, Aachen Worms).
Maybe someday.

Photo: Francois Cali
Strasburg Cathedral
Again, perhaps color would just get in the way
of such a work of art. 
And that organ case!
from "The Wonders of France" by
Francois Cali
Viking press
A favorite book. 

Photo: Martin Hurlimann
Venice, the Grand Canal and S. Maria Salute
No collection of black-and-white photography should
ignore Martin Hurlimann, who published wonderful collections on
Italy, France, and most of Europe.
from "Italy"
The Studio Publications, New York

Photo: Guillaume De Laubier
The Vatican Library
Architect: Domenico Fontana
from "The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World"
Jacques Bosser, text
Henry N. Abrams, Pubs.
The most beautiful library I ever visited was the one in
Melk Abbey, Austria.

I hope you enjoyed these.