The grand tour is an obvious trope for framing a journey through Italy, yet this historical context can serve as a vehicle for a more ingrained understanding of Italy’s wider architectural habitat and cultural mythology. This book, which accompanied an exhibition of the same title at the Architectural Association in 2016, appears in the form of a latter-day Baedeker. But rather than a pragmatic itinerary, its content here offers an eclectic and idiosyncratic list of assorted reasons to head south, richly illustrated by architect Peter Wilson’s own drawings and watercolours.

9781907896781, 2016
15.3 × 11.5cm, illustrated, 256pp, paperback