Typography in architecture

[Nick Shinn]

...the relationship of lettering and building.

Nicolette Grey makes many architectural allusions in Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces, comparing the type design trends in different decades of the 19th century with contemporary trends in architecture. She benchmarks type design against architecture, more so than art, literature or music.
Her book is in fact a history of 19th century english type design in general, not just ornamental types. As a cultural analysis of the plastic values of type style, I know of no better work.