Bernd & Hilla Becher: Tipologie, Typologien, Typologies 2026-02-14 Full Disclosure: We swiped the

Full Disclosure: We swiped the above description from the Grolier Club’s exhibition of One Hundred Books Famous in Typography

draughtsman

We crossed the street for a closer look

impressed that someone had the nerve to hang that sign in a tree

Thirty-five issues were published

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Tipologie, Typologien, Typologies 2026-02-14 Full Disclosure: We swiped theThis seminal volume served as the official catalog for the Bechers exhibition at the 1990 Venice Biennale (before it was at Harvards Carpenter Center in 1991), where they made history by winning the Golden Lion for Sculpture. The book perfectly encapsulates their Dsseldorf School methodology, presenting industrial structureswater towers, blast furnaces, and cooling towersin rigid, objective typological grids. By stripping away environmental context