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5 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 0 R E S O U R C E S JAN TSCHICHOLD AND THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY: GRAPHIC DESIGN BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS BY PAUL STIRTON During the 1920s and '30s, graphic design in central Europe underwent a radical transformation brought about by newly forged ties to a fl ourishing avant-garde, namely Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus. Those styles and principles associated with Modernism became known as "the New Typography," named after graphic designer Jan Tschichold's landmark text from 1928. This richly illustrated book examines works from Tschichold's private collection, alongside texts by well-known fi gures, including Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and László Moholy-Nagy. ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS: DESIGN AS SECOND NATURE BY SHAJAY BHOOSHAN, PILAR ECHEZARRETA, FELIPE LEAL, MARCOS MAZARI, PATRIK SCHUMACHER, FRANCISCO SERRANO Design as Second Nature focuses on the creative processes behind Hadid's projects, with emphasis on models, paintings, photographs and fi lms by Hadid and others made in preparation or taken as inspiration for buildings. This concise overview also examines the ongoing work of Hadid's fi rm and design studio, Zaha Hadid Architects, emphasizing its guiding ethos of "design as second nature"—the mimicking of organic processes of growth and biomorphism in architectural design, or "bio-mimetics"—and attendant new engineering paradigms such as "tectonism." Published for the fi rst exhibition on the enormously infl uential Iraqi British architect Zaha Hadid to take place in Latin America (at Mexico City's Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo). RUIN AND REDEMPTION IN ARCHITECTURE BY DAN BARASCH Consumerism and throwaway culture have always plagued Modern architecture, causing the destruction and dilapidation of signifi cant works. That fact is highlighted by Ruin and Redemption in Architecture, a global survey of 66 structures at various stages of neglect. The book is organized into four categories: Lost, Forgotten, Reimagined and Transformed, with entries accompanied by informative briefs, photographs, and in some cases drawings, diagrams and renderings. But taken as a whole, this book is more than a documentation of a bygone era. It's a plea to realize the power and potential of architectural ruin in enriching the present-day and future process of place-making.