Yee (yes, just Yee) is a world-renowned papercrafter, and in Origami Architecture he offers readers a global portfolio of construction projects, with step-by-step instructions for paper models of 16 landmarks, from the Arc de Triomphe to Westminster Palace. After a shopping list of suitable materials and necessary tools, Yee provides general guidelines and tips, some of which have the tenor of fortune cookies, as applicable to daily life as they are to papercraft: "You must understand completely what you are trying to do before you do it."
Each section of Origami Architecture begins with a brief history of the actual building, including its construction, giving the dimensions of both the original and the paper model with a note about the level of difficulty. (Amazingly, half of the buildings can be built with almost no glue, including the White House, London's Tower Bridge and the Parthenon.) With templates for each model conveniently available as printable PDFs on an accompanying CD-ROM, Origami Architecture has almost everything aspiring papercrafters need to recreate architectural landmarks in their own homes and workshops. --Sarah Borders, librarian, Houston Public Library