Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/27/an-alphabet-made-of-architectural-plans-from-1773.html
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It’s very strange, there’s no letter J in this floorplan alphabet.
I love it. It’s basically a fancy application letter.
The aauthor was 72 when he wrote the book.
The version from google books has proper OCR; the version on archive.org was processed as if it wasn’t Fraktur.
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That’s fair. He was also already an accomplished architect. I may have taken his appeal to be useful to his potentate too literally rather than as a literary trope of the dedication.
As a side note, I have seen many buildings built by Steingruber and have had coffee opposite the house he used to live in.
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An interesting essay on the Alphabet was published here:
But, of course, it has missing pages.
It does mention two of Steingruber’s more iconic buildings
Herrieder Tor
and Ettenhausen Kirche
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The former I have walked through many times.
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