Hays: Architecture Theory Since 1968
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998
Description
The typographic elements—rules, bars, and dashes—suggest a timeline for this anthology on architectural theory. The text is set up linearly: the running heads, author names, and folios run continuously on one line. “Hot keys” appear in the margins, linking the reader to other texts in the book.
The linear theme extends to the cover, where a diagram and embossed typographic terrain merge. The cover best embodies the book’s design concept, which reflects the author’s view that there is not one architectural theory but many, and they can intersect with one another at random. The diagram represents architecture, the superimposed embossing conveys the multiplicity of interpretations in the field.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1998
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- MIT Press
- Designer
- Jean Wilcox
- Illustrators
- Stan Allen, Jean Wilcox
- Typeface
- Meta
- Printers
- Phoenix Color, Quebecor Books
- Paper
- 50$ Finch Fine
- Author
- K. Michael Hays
- Publisher
- MIT Press
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