This thesis examines the relationship between architectural spaces and the architecture book, and how tools of graphic design can be used to highlight characteristics of the building through the book medium. The architecture book is an object with the possibility to, through both content and form, communicate different aspects of the building. These aspects are related to architectural style, materials and shapes, as well as psychosocial environment or bodily experience. The theoretical approach used is semiotics and phenomenology. A method of semiotic visual analysis is used to analyse two architecture books, and a phenomenological method is used to perform a field study of the buildings the books are about. The relationship between book and building is then discussed. The result shows ways that graphic design tools such as typography, paper and use of images communicate both architectural shapes and the physical experience of the building, and also how the book through this can give an impression that deviates from the building.