The Idiotic Building is a miniature book about following all of your “idiotic” dreams, as told through the story of New York City’s first skyscraper. At 13 stories tall, the Tower Building seemed so ludicrous to people that they nicknamed it the Idiotic Building and waited for it to fall. It never did, paving the way for greater heights for decades to come. I felt compelled to make the book after hearing its brief mention in New York: A Documentary Film. The 53-page book also ends with a flip-book-like timeline of the world’s tallest buildings through history and serves as a fun introduction to architecture.

Idiotic story and select spreads from the chronology of the world’s tallest buildings through history