Epics in the Everyday

  • Type:
    Editorial, Book
  • Author:

    Jesús Vassallo

  • Publisher:

    Park Books

    Rice University

  • Year:

    2020

Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish architect and a professor of architecture at Rice University. In Epics in the Everyday, Vassallo proposes an alternative history of both modern architecture and documentary photography, and traces the evolution of the dialectic between abstraction and realism.

The book design pursues to reflect the historicity of its content and the main concepts the author lay out. Thus, the book as an object presents itself with a traditional fabric spine binding, with a cover design in which everyday and avant-garde graphics are mixed. Also, the different periods that the book covers, seems to be contained and updated in the design. On one hand the typefaces depicts the post-war period from which the book begins, and on the other, all the graphic elements in the cover are arranged in a contemporary composition, displaying not only the last chapters of the book, but also Jesús Vassallo’s voice giving an up-to-date insight into all these epochs and aesthetics that have join together the architectural and photographic practice.