Perspecta 35: Building Codes
Book
228.6 x 304.8 mm / 104 pp
Printed by Lecturis, Eindhoven
Bound by Handboekbinderij Geertsens, Nijmegen
Published by Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
2004
The book consists of two categories of writings: the full-length, academic ‘essays’, and the more personal and sketch-like ‘briefs’. The essays form the main body of the book, while the briefs, printed on smaller sheets of coloured paper, are ‘inserted’ at an interval of sixteen pages, regardless of the flow of the essays. The book in its standard format is quite big for extended reading: the text is set in an accordingly large size, forcing the reader to maintain a safe distance between his/her eyes and the book. It also adds a slightly unfamiliar, rather wild quality to the largely conventional and refined layout.
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