Unpacking My Library : Architects and Their Books

English

ISBN: 0300158939

EAN: 9780300158939

Category: Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General/Architecture / General/

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release Date: 11/30/2009

Synopsis: 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 Libraryprovides an intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the worlds 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 ones own provide an evocative glimpse of their owners 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 Toshiko Mori Michael Sorkin Bernard Tschumi Todd Williams & Billie Tsien Peter Eisenmans Recommended Titles: Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture Thomas Pynchon, Gravitys Rainbow Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology Andrea Palladio, The Four Books on Architecture Walter Benjamin, Illuminations James Joyce, Finnegans Wake William Faulkner, Light in August

Unpacking My Library : Architects and Their Books

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 2.01 inches

Width: 8.0 inches

Length: 5.5 inches

Weight: 18.45 oz

Pages: 192