I am not generally accustomed to showing readers what I received for Christmas, but my beloved wife gave me a fascinating book that is at once informative and beautiful in appearance. It's called Assembly Required: Inside the World's Most Powerful Buildings, and it was published by TLDR News in 2025. This is a book that I had long wished to see published, as its subject matter sometimes came up in my political science classes. Many of us have noted that legislative assemblies meet in rooms with different shapes. In many countries, deputies fan out from the speaker in a semicircle, while in other countries they face each other across an open floor. Still others have legislators sitting in a horseshoe or in a room resembling a classroom or theatre.
