Bernard Rudofsky, best known for Architecture Without Architects, is one of my favorite authors not only for the subjects he tackled (vernacular architecture, the pedestrian realm, Japan, fashion) but especially for the way he created books as a careful balance of the visual and the verbal. His books are not just text accompanied by photographs and drawings; they are the two working together, conveying information in concert with each other. The more I blog, write, and photograph, the more I aspire to have words and images work together like Rudofsky, here and in his other books. ( )