Eating Architecture

Rating:
Summary: A Fascinating Book, Marred by Poor Typeface
Review: Although what a book says is perhaps the most pressing sphere in which to evaluate it, the way those words are presented can be equally important.

This is one of those unfortunate books, cast asunder by its publisher before it was even fully born. The crime: body text in sans-serif font!

There is nothing worse than having to read page after page of text without serifs. Not to disgress into the history of typography, but serif fonts are designed for legibility, to allow the reader to read without becoming fatigued. Sans-serif fonts cripple the eyes, making them sore all too soon.

A fascinating book with fascinating content. If only I could read it for more than a few minutes at a time. If, like me, you prefer to vote with your dollars and punish those horrible editors, or designers, or whomever it is that makes such asinine decisions, and refuse to purchase books printed in horrible, difficult-to-read fonts: this is one of them.

Not recommended, for that reason alone.

Rating:
Summary: Delicious!
Review: Editors Horwitz and Singley have assembled a delectable recipe of essays that graze on an admixture of architecture and food. Highly recommended.