More a massive magazine than a book in the traditional sense, MMXX (Thames and Hudson, 2020) seeks both currency and reflection. Cataloguing 20 years of Australian architecture, Cameron Bruhn acts as author and editor, concisely writing on 59 selected projects and bringing in a strong set of diverse voices to contribute essays. He makes clear the link to Davina Jackson and Chris Johnson’s 2000 book Australian Architecture Now, but this and other books around the time sought currency rather than reflection in their attempts to capture a concise period. Given Bruhn’s stated
