10 × 10 by Haig Beck et al, Phaidon, £35, ISBN 0714839221
Anyone who browses in book shops or works in a library occasionally loses
sight of the books’ content and experiences them exclusively for their covers
and shapes—the strong colours of the jackets, the pyramids of bestsellers,
or the ranked volumes stretching into the distance.
Colour, form and repetition of order are all vital ingredients of
architecture too: the library or shop you stand in also repeats and rearranges
elements of design and engineering. Most are familiar: like the column and
pillar. But open up 10×10 and you’ll find…
