VISIONARY CITIES: THE ARCOLOGY OF PAOLO SOLERI with text by Donald Wall and Paolo Soleri

Praeger Publishers, 1971, First edition, 210 pp., 9 3/4" X 9 3/4", Hardcover Very good+ in very good jacket with some handling / rubbing and wear to extremities. When Donald Wall made this book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most radical form. "When future design historians go looking for precursors to the "new" typography of the 1990s, architecture critic Donald Wall's extraordinary monograph about the architect Paolo Soleri, published by Praeger in 1971, will require some careful attention. Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant