Among Buildings invites readers to reimagine the architecture around them. This collaboration between photographer Tom Ross, architect and poet Michael Roper, and graphic designer Stuart Geddes explores 26 key Melbourne buildings through photography and poetry.

In its second edition, Among Buildings is presented in a lay-flat binding, enhancing the dialogue between image and text. Drawing on place, myth, history, and personal experience, it offers intimate reflections on iconic structures like Robin Boyd’s Featherston House, the Griffins’ Capitol Theatre, and Yuncken Freeman’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Rather than attempting a comprehensive study, the book offers a series of open-ended, personal fragments—glimpses of a city’s architecture through a kaleidoscope of imagination. An introduction by architect and poet Alex Selenitsch sets the stage for this thought-provoking exploration.

(Second edition)

Featured buildings:

Queen Victoria Market, William Salway 
Heide I, Unknown 
Chadwick House, Harold Desbrowe-Annear  
The Fitzroy Baths, Sir John Monash 
Luna Park, T. H. Eslick 
Capitol Theatre, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin 
Manchester Unity Building, Marcus Barlow 
Shrine of Remembrance, Hudson and Wardrop 
Cairo Flats, Best Overend 
River House, Peter and Dione McIntyre 
ICI House, Bates Smart and McCutcheon 
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Yuncken Freeman 
Heide II, McGlashan Everist 
National Gallery of Victoria, Roy Grounds / Mario Bellini 
Featherston House, Robin Boyd 
Plumbers and Gasfitters Union Building, Graeme Gunn  
Atherton Gardens Housing Estate, Housing Commission of Victoria 
Belford Road Bridge, Kinnaird Hill de Rohan and Young 
Athan House, Edmond and Corrigan  
Storey Hall, Ashton Raggatt McDougall 
Napier Street Housing, Kerstin Thompson 
Federation Square, Lab Architecture Studio 
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Wood Marsh 
Heide III, O’Connor and Houle 
Seaford Lifesaving Club, Robert Simeoni 
RMIT Design Hub, Sean Godsell