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book (design) story #243

johannes bernardus van loghem:
bouwen bauen bâtir building

m.v. uitgevers-maatschappij "kosmos", amsterdam, 1932
size: 25 x 19 cm
designer: paul schuitema

this 1932 book by dutch architect johannes bernardus van loghem (1881-1940) is a great overview of modernist architecture in holland. although the main text is in dutch, there are summaries and captions in german, english and french.

paul schuitema (1897-1973), one of holland's leading modernist graphic designers, is credited in the impressum for the typography, cover and jacket design – unfortunantely lacking on this copy.

schuitema uses a narrow sans-serif for the title which is printed in four languages. on the grey cloth cover the titles are printed in green across a blindstamped map of holland.

all texts are set in lowercase sans-serif.

above theo van doesburg's studio house in meudon near paris, below houses by schröder and rietveld (left) and mart stam's terraced houses in the weissenhof siedlung, stuttgart.