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A new series highlighting women's voices in the architectural profession todayThe first installment in nai010's new Women in Architecture series, Documents and Histories offers a many-faceted exploration of multivocality in architecture. Catja Edens reflects on the diverse roles of women in architecture; Lara Schrijver's essay strives for a shift from rivalry to cooperation within design practice; Indira van 't Klooster develops a vocabulary that offers points of access for new analyses; Setareh Noorani focuses on the developments and potential of alternative ways of archiving; and Carolina Quiroga discusses the feminist and participatory architecture of Wilhelmina Jansen and Ada Kuiper-Struyk. Additionally, Documents and Histories includes contributions from Gianna Bottema, Brigitte Louise Hansen, Rixt Hoekstra, Ellen van Kessel, Manon Peyrot, Erica Smeets-Klokgieters and Charlotte Thomas.

"An assessment of the diversity and creativity of type and how design makes sense of communicating text." -TyperoomTheory of Type Design, by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typographer Gerard Unger (born 1942), is the first complete and accessible theory of the breathtakingly varied field of typography. "Of all designed objects letters are probably the most pervasive," as Unger explains at the beginning of his study. "Very familiar yet amazingly diverse in their appearance ... there seems to be no limit to human ingenuity when it comes to varying letterforms."Unger approaches the diversity and creativity of the field with a wide-ranging, reflective, critical theory of how we design and make sense of text. The history of typography is surveyed, from cuneiform script to Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet and today's digital developments, and explored in relation to how our eyes and brain process various letter shapes in order to understand text.This volume consists of 24 concise chapters, each clearly describing a different aspect of type design (from practical considerations like spacing and rhythm, legibility, size and italics to more ineffable considerations like personality and preference). This theoretical material is illuminated by more than 200 illustrations and practical examples, and an extensive glossary succinctly explains terminology and key ideas.Internationally oriented, and taking into consideration the past, present and future of typography, Theory of Type Design will be an indispensible resource for graphic design students, professionals, and those with a general interest in text and printed matter.

A concise guide to Rotterdam's architectural highlightsThis compact, up-to-date guide to Rotterdam presents the highlights of the Netherlands' number-one city of architecture: the latest high-profile buildings, illustrious icons and hidden jewels. In addition to the 100 best buildings, this guide also directs visitors to the city's must-see locales.