Spreading Holiday Cheer!: MAF’s Architecture-Related Gifting Guide

11/28/2025

Looking for unique gift ideas? Check out part two of MAF’s 2025 Gifting Guide for architecture related gifts that everyone can enjoy!

It’s the perfect time to begin or continue your holiday gift shopping. This month we are highlighting gifts from architecture books to tea gift sets, including many options that are currently on sale.

Michigan Architecture Books

Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy by Author Brian D. Conway with Photography by James Haefner

Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America by Amy Arnold and Brian Conway

Great Architecture of Michigan by Author John Gallagher with Photography by Balthazar Korab

Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges

Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City by Jeff Morrison

Architecture Must Haves 

Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style by Architectural Digest

Architects’ Houses by Michael Webb

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women by Jane Hall

Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing by Max Podemski

To find more book recommendations, check out the 100 Essential Architecture Books list.

Gifts for Adults

Frank Lloyd Wright Tea Gift Set by Tea Forte

Iconic Buildings Memo Game by PrintWorks

Architecture Art Prints by PSTR Studio

Frank Lloyd Wright Double Sided Puzzle featuring Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum from Uncommon Goods

Metrolog Aluminum Ruler by Craighill

Gifts for Young Thinkers

Make-Your-Own Color In Dollhouse from Uncommon Goods

Big City Blockitecture by Areaware

A Place Called Home: Look Inside Houses Around the World by Author Kate Baker and Illustrator Rebecca Green 

What’s That Building? An Architectural Guessing Game by Author Rebecca Donnelly and Artist Jocelyn Cho