Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books, Jo Steffens, NIEUW BOEK / NEW BOOK

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.

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

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? 

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.

Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books features the libraries of:

Stan Allen, Henry Cobb, Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, Michael Sorkin, Bernard Tschumi and Todd Williams & Billie Tsien.

Peter Eisenman’s Recommended Titles:

Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s 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, Jo Steffens, NIEUW BOEK / NEW BOOK
Yale University Press, hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN: 9780300158939

Engelstalig / Language: English

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