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Design Category
Book design, 1999
Design firm
Lorraine Wild Design (Los Angeles, California)
Collection
(2000) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1999
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This is the third “monograph” that I have designed with Morphosis, and in the time between the second book (1992) and this one (1997) the Morphosis office had revised the way it worked by stopping creating drawings for buildings conventionally, and going completely “digital.” The only conventional images (on paper) to work with were preliminary sketches and photographs of a few study models and a few existing built buildings. We wanted to create a process that would allow the architects, who now design and present almost simultaneously, a way to determine the visual explication of projects. The first 256 pages of the book were initially created as one long drawing, conceived of as a continuous “accordion” created by the architects in a variety of CAD programs, which were then imported into Quark, where the graphic designers added typographic information on top of the architects files. Writings about the buildings (and reproductions of conventional photographic images) are attached to the end of the drawing in a relatively conventional set of appendices.