As one of Australia’s leading architects, David Holm is passionate about drawing, the built environment and travel. His first book 'Drawing Italy' was published to great acclaim in 2009.His follow-up, 'Drawing Paris' is an architectural guide to the most beautiful (and planned) city in the world.Why Paris?The history of Parisian Architecture is the history of Europe – from the medieval origins of the Louvre palace, through to Napoleon’s grand designs, Hausmann’s great visionary boulevards and IM Pei’s controversial pyramid. Paris is an architect’s dream.David explains the history of Paris as he takes us on a grand tour of the city through her 12 arrondissement. With his trademark exquisite drawings of the major buildings, clear explanatory text and all new supporting photographs, this book distils the history and beauty of Paris into one very special guide book.Designed for use on the ground (hence the flexi-bound paperback format) as well as in the armchair, Drawing Paris shows us all the major sites.

Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900–1925 is an illustrated catalog with companion essays for an exhibition of the same name at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Drawing the Future explores the creative ferment among Chicago architects in the early twentieth century, coinciding with similar visions around the world. The essays focus on the highlights of the exhibition. David Van Zanten profiles Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Chicago architects who created an influential, prize-winning plan for Canberra, the new capital of Australia. Ashley Dunn looks at the two exhibits at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, one devoted to the Griffins in 1914 and the other to the French architect Tony Garnier in 1925, demonstrating the impact of World War I on city planning and architecture. Leslie Coburn examines Chicago’s Neighborhood Center Competition of 1914–15, which sought to redress gaps in Daniel Burnham’s plan of 1909. The ambition and reach of Chicago architecture in this epoch would have lasting influence on cities of the future.

Monet was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. But while the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement.