The Designers & Books website asked 118 designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests to select the most notable design books of 2011. Among the 91 titles chosen was Professor Edward Ford’s The Architectural Detail (Princeton Architectural Press). 

Additional reviews of The Architectural Detail can be found at

http://archidose.org/wp/2012/01/30/the-architectural-detail/

http://criticundertheinfluence.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/book-review-the-architectural-detail/

http://www.architectmagazine.com/books/book-the-architectural-detail.aspx