Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300158939 ISBN 13: 9780300158939

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture?Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world’s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives.

Photographs of bookshelves—displaying well-loved and rare volumes, eclectic organizational schemes, and the individual touches that make a bookshelf one’s own—provide an evocative glimpse of their owner’s personal life. Each architect also presents a reading list of top ten influential titles, from architectural history to theory to fiction and nonfiction, that serves as a personal philosophy of literature and history, and advice on what every young architect, scholar, and lover of architecture should read.

An inspiring cross-section of notable libraries, this beautiful book celebrates the arts of reading and collecting.

Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Booksfeatures the libraries of:

Stan Allen

Henry Cobb

Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio

Peter Eisenman

Michael Graves

Steven Holl

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jo Steffens is director of Urban Center Books and editor of Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300158939
• ISBN 13: 9780300158939
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
• Herausgeber: Steffens Jo
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar