Civilia. The End Of Sub Urban Man
Cover of the facsimile reprint
Civilia. The End Of Sub Urban Man. A Challenge to Semidetsia was originally published by the Architectural Press in 1971, edited by Ivor de Wolfe, pen name of Hubert de Cronin Hastings. Artifice issued a facsimile reproduction in 2015.
The striking typeface is the caps-only Sculptura, designed by Walter Diethelm and released in 1957 by Haas. It can be described as a combination of two earlier and more popular shaded display faces by the same foundry: the narrow sans-serif letterforms are similar to Graphique (1945) while the contour styling is reminiscient of Profil (1946). Sculptura was digitally revived by Jason Castle in 2005.
Original jacket (front)
Detail of the cloth cover
Title page
Interior pages with a foreword by Ian Nairn
Original jacket (back)
The Architectural Review Vol. CXLIX Number 892 June 1971
