Amancio Williams – Readings of the Archive
Design studio Our Polite Society used OPS And Ever, a newly released sanserif by OPS Type, for this book of archival research into Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913–1989) published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in partnership with Spector Books. Readings by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen present new and expanded understandings of Williams’s work, and situate the social, material, and political dimensions of his practice within contemporary architectural discourse.
OPS And Ever, designed by Jan Egbers, is a proportional update and continuation of OPS Favorite, a monospace released by the foundry in 2019. In the book, it is used alongside the mono, which still features in the indexes. The headings and cover of the book are set in a still-unreleased Ultra cut of the typeface.
