Architectural Traces Kniha by Stjepko Rosin

Architectural Traces Kniha by Stjepko Rosin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Železná cena A' Design Award in Tisk Competition Category.

ŽelezoTisk· 2022

Architectural Traces Kniha

by Stjepko Rosin

Client: Naklada Boskovic

Železná cena A' Design Award Winner in Tisk Category

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The Design

About Architectural Traces Kniha

Architektonické stopy je kniha o díle dalmatského architekta. Obálka má šikmou hranu, která z dálky připomíná střechu s typickými římskými taškami. Zblízka se však vzor odhalí jako obraz ze skutečného snímku magnetické rezonance architektovy páteře. Tento optický klam poukazuje na skrytou a bolestnou realitu skrývající se za obdivovanými stavbami. Kniha má rozměry 270 mm x 270 mm x 35 mm a je vytištěna na ofsetovém papíře s pevnou šitou vazbou bez přebalu. Při používání se obálka rozevírá do šikmé polohy.

The Recognition

About the Železná cena A' Design Award

Architectural Traces Kniha je vítězem Železné ceny A' Design Award, prestižního uznání udělovaného dobrým designům, které splňují profesní a průmyslové požadavky očekávané od dobře navržených výtvorů. Železní vítězové prokazují velké dovednosti, vysokou specializaci, odborné porozumění a tvůrčí kapacitu svých tvůrců. Očekává se, že Architectural Traces Kniha bude vysoce ceněným, obdivovaným a oblíbeným výtvorem, který je praktický a inovativní. Tento design, který získal Železnou cenu A' Design Award, integruje osvědčené postupy odvětví a má kompetentní technické vlastnosti spojené s know-how a talentem. Architectural Traces Kniha je vážen pro svou důkladnost a je navržen tak, aby poskytoval zlepšení kvality života, která pomáhají činit svět lepším místem.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Looking from a distance at the sloping side of the cover, we recognize a roof with typical Dalmatian Roman tiles. It is created by the optical illusion of images of the actual Magnetic resonance of the architect's spine, which can be seen when we approach the book. They reveal the hidden and painful reality of a responsible Dalmatian architect, the one behind the buildings we admire.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions are 270 mm x 270 mm x 35 mm
Tags: Book, Architecture, Spine, Traces, Dalmatian, Roman
Production Technology: The format of the book was chosen as the one that corresponds to the difference in proportions and quality content of the publication, not too large for the convenience of leafing. It is printed on quality offset paper, hard, stitched binding without the outer paper wrapper.
Design Challenge: The challenge was how to show the life of an architect who is not easy. To show it true in a society that has prejudices against responsible architects and that perceives architecture in the wrong way. Show that not all architects are the same.
Research: Almost a lifelong experience, living in the same household with an architect, talking many times about architecture, I witnessed many successes but also injustice, misunderstanding, pressure, threats, sleepless nights, and consequently health problems.
Inspiration: The Dalmatian architecture disappears under the trends. The authors of the book, called Architectural Traces, describe the works of a renowned Dalmatian architect Jerko Rosin, as modest, considerate, rational, responsible for the area, without unnecessary trendy views. And on the spine that has not bent in front of insatiable investors, which are consistency, stress, and years spent in a chair, I notice some different architectural, more painful, traces.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2019 in Split and finished in January 2020 in Split, and was exhibited in Hotel Park congress hall in January 2020.
Operation Flow: The book is not designed flat. Although it communicates even when closed, it comes to full expression during use, when opening the book, when the cover comes into its open oblique position.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #2: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #3: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #4: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021
Image #5: Photographer Stjepko Rosin, 2021