VERSO CONTRIBUTORS COVER AArchitecture News from the Architectural Association Issue 3 / Spring 2007 Shumon Basar Front Cover: Visual contents, AArchitecture #3 Umberto Bellardi Ricci Inside Covers: AA Fireworks for Guy Fawkes day, Bedford Square ©2007 All rights reserved. Published by Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES. Mark Cousins EDITORIAL TEAM Brett Steele, Editorial Director Nicola Quinn, Managing Editor Zak Kyes / Zak Group, Art Director Wayne Daly, Graphic Designer Gregory Ambos, Design Assistant Alex Lorente Fredrik Hellberg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Valerie Bennett Micki Hawkes Pamela Johnston Simone Sagi Marilyn Sparrow Will Sparrow Mitim Myshkin Clarke Hall * * * * FUTURA DISPLAY Erandi de Silva Werner Gaiser Alistair Gill Steve Hardy Zak Kyes Udayan Mazumdar Kitty O’Grady Veronika Schmid Ottilie Ventiroso Headlines in this issue of AArchitecture are set in Futura Display, a typeface drawn in 1932 by Paul Renner (1878 – 1956), a German type designer, author and teacher. Renner is best known for his design of the geometic sans-serif typeface Futura, from which Futura Display marks a significant departure, relating more closely to Schaftstiefelgrotesk or “jackboot blackletter” popularised at the time. ‘An early and prominent member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he was committed to the values of quality in design, always tempered by a certain sobriety of attitude and style. In the 1920s Renner engaged with the radical modernism of that time, briefly in Frankfurt, and then in a more extended phase at the printing school at Munich. Under Renner’s leadership, and with teachers such as Georg Trump and Jan Tschichold, the school produced work of quiet significance. In those years Renner undertook the design of the now ubiquitous typeface Futura.’ Extract from Hyphen Press, publisher of Paul Renner: the art of typography. hyphenpress.co.uk/titles/paul_renner Body text is set in Wedding Sans, designed by Andrea Tinnes / Typecuts. Architectural Association (Inc.), Registered Charity No. 311083. Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 171402. Registered office as above. AArchitecture – Issue 3 News from the Architectural Association 2