A Frank Lloyd Wright monograph disguised as a children's book and a photo reportage of African modernism shot by Iwan Baan have been chosen as the top 10 books about architecture from 2016.
Books in the list drawn up by the organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt are to be awarded the DAM Architectural Book Award ? the world's only architecture-specific book prize.
Now in its eighth year, the award attracted 214 submissions from 88 publishers worldwide. The ten winners were selected based on their innovation and topicality, as well as overall design and finishing.
A prize-giving ceremony will be held on 19 October 2016 in the library at Deutsches Architekturmuseum to coincide with the Frankfurt Book Fair, which takes place in the German city until the 23rd of this month. Here's the top ten, in no particular order:

African Modernism ? Architecture of Independence by Manuel Herz, Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn and Julia Jamrozik
The book highlights 80 examples of modernist structures built in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and Zambia in the 1960s and 1970s. Written by Basel architect Manuel Herz and with photography by Iwan Baan, it shows the architecture produced in the countries' first years of independence from Britain and France.
"An astonishing tour de force taking in five totally different sub-Saharan countries by Manuel Herz and his students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (...