A View of Early Typography: Up to about 1600
 Glad to see this classic back in print: I came across the original edition of this fine book in the Cal Poly SLO library while doing other research, and knew I had to have it, so I got a used copy through abebooks.com. If you're anywhere nearly as [... more]
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New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the ...
Power the underground: In the mid 1980's I worked at an architectural firm on West 27th street in manhattan. The next block south, off the Avenue of the Americas was a parking lot which allowed full view of the buildings facing south on West 26th street. [... more]
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The New Big Book of Logos
Thre's inspiration here for EVERY logo designer.: OK. You're trying to come up with a logo design for your new client. You're stuck. What do you do? If you're lucky, you have this book handy, and you can flip through nearly 400 pages and about 2,500 logo [... more]
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Architectural Association Projects Review 04/05
Author: Princeton Architectural Press Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9781902902456 ISBN: 1902902459 Number Of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 2005-08-01 [... more]
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Waiting for the End of the World
A quiet little gem: I had the pleasure of discovering Richard Ross' latest photographic endeavor at Book Expo last week in Chicago, where it was prominently displayed in the Princeton Architectural Press' booth. The photographs are splendid; quirky, [... more]
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The Chapel at Ronchamp
From Amazon.com: The Ronchamp Chapel is a boldly expressive free-form structure that says as much about enlightened patronage as it does about the genius of Le Corbusier, a seminal figure whose work usually celebrated pure rationality rather than the [... more]
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
Slide show without the speaker: You may at first be tempted to buy this book for one or more of the following reasons: (a) if you leaf quickly through it, you'll see lots of grid thumbnails, which may give you the impression that a range of different [... more]
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Paint by Number
From Amazon.com: A mass culture obsessed with suburbia, leisure, and consumerism that sought access to high culture: that was 1950s America. Naturally, it was obsessed with paint by number, where all of these cross. A companion to an exhibition at the [... more]
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Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age
Russian Space Photos Depicting a Bygone Era: Having been a Soviet/Russian space enthusiast since childhood, I was naturally excited to learn that Princeton Architectural Press was publishing a photonovel entitled "KOSMOS - A Portrait of the Russian [... more]
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Architecture and Film
Buildings and Rooms makes sense: I didn't really notice cinema's similarity to architecture until I read Architecture and Film, edited by Mark Lamster, the senior editor at Princeton Architectural Press. What we have here is a collection of essays by [... more]
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Wiel Arets: Works, Projects, Writings
The first full-length monograph of Arets' work: Aptly edited by Xavier Costa (Curator of Architecture, Mies van der Rohe Foundation), Wiel Arets is an impressive presentation showcasing the creations of architect Wiel Arets. The first full-length [... more]
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
Not so good as an introduction: So I am given this book by a colleague and told that it's a great book to teach proportion in art from. It has got some pretty and neat overlays, but I feel like it manages not to say very much. Also... there's something [... more]
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