Task 2_Architecture ou art de bien bastir - Archived
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This spread left a particular impression on me. Firstly, the drawings are very interesting and intriguing; besides the temple structure, I have no idea what the author or artist intended to depict in the other illustrations. Secondly and the reason why I chose this spread is because of it’s structure and proportions. If i am not mistaken, this spread is divided into 16 sub-parts (4 x 4) which can be independently combined.
f.ex. top left – 2/4 width, 2/4 height; top right – 1/4 width, 2/4 height; bottom right – 1/4 width, 1/4 height;In this spead we find the one and only table of the whole book. The table has been hand-written (in a separate context); I would interpret it such as that the writer wasn’t aware of the print area. Hence the transparent overlap of the previous page can be seen and the edges of the printing area can be differentiated. Thus, rather than a typographic construction, it’s application is equal to a freely dispositioned illustration.This spead is of representative nature for the whole book in terms of the density of the type-area and the applied typographic rules . It’s also the one most interesting to me because of the undermost, or last word of every page. I haven’t quite unterstood which rules were established but there are two things happening at the same time. On certain pages, as in this spread with the example of “theatre”, they remain as typos (literal errors), on others they appear being a set of unlucky characters or a single one, as on the right page of this spread. However at the same time this very last word is repeated anyway on the consecutive page. So what is the intention of this element? It seems somehow redundant or even contradictory and I can’t imagine it being some sort of reading-help. Maybe it’s merely a technical support to the reproduction process, acting as a safe verification method to the bookbinder. But this again would seem to be a bit of a radical procedure and doesn’t make any sense anyway because a pagination exists already. Maybe I haven’t thought this through; to me this question remains in the open.
