Christopher Wilson’s Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel now sells for £15.

As Hyphen Press gradually winds down its activities, we are passing titles on to other, sympathetic publishers. This year these books have been brought back into print:

From hieroglyphics to Isotype

Modern typography

Printed matter / Drukwerk

The stroke

In 2015 Jost Hochuli’s Detail in typography was passed to Éditions B42.

The office is closed for orders for books and CDs, from 10 to 28 July. Orders received during this period will be dispatched on 29 July.

The latest issue of Oase, the journal of architecture, is worth getting hold of. It is devoted to a discussion Kenneth Frampton’s theory of ‘critical regionalism’, which he published first in an essay of 1983. In this special issue of Oase, the original article is reprinted in facsimile, with Dutch translation added; there is a retrospective interview with Frampton, and discussions of the critical regionalism theory by other, younger practitioner-historian-critics: the combined role that Frampton has himself exemplified in his now long career. Read more

This video of David Wild talking at the Architectural Association in London in 1998, to launch his book Fragments of utopia, has emerged on YouTube.

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