Urgent Books in the Digital Age -
summary
Long collaboration produces concrete methods: dozens of physical maquettes, daily prototyping and 40 loose signatures that become flexible structures; a current “many lives” autobiography is built as layered layers of national perspectives rather than I narration; 50 unrealized dummies coexist with 500 realized titles and a 2,528‑page Elements of Architecture that tests scale and navigation. Tools include Vatican archival research, exact pocket‑format constraints taken from a 1501 Virgil edition, nonlinear layouts for corporate books and embossed tactile printing. book machine slow books
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to collaboration
- 1:11How the partnership began
- 2:36New project and process
- 4:58Designer and author roles
- 7:44Project Japan
- 9:59Structuring complex content
- 13:29Catalog raisonné
- 15:58Elements of architecture
- 18:27Slow books for the future
- 21:02Realized and unrealized projects
- 22:57Countryside report
- 27:37Harvard seminar on books
- 31:44Competition books
- 34:45Future work and closing
