{"product_id":"unpacking-my-library-architects-and-their-books","title":"Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books","description":"“I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. . . . Be ready to share with me a bit of the mood—it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation—which these books arouse in a genuine collector. . . . What I am really concerned with is giving you some insight into the relationship of a book collector to his possessions, into collecting rather than a collection.” —Walter Benjamin, 1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003ePhotographs 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.\u003cbr\u003eAn inspiring cross-section of notable libraries, this beautiful book celebrates the arts of reading and collecting.\u003cbr\u003eUnpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books features the libraries of:\u003cbr\u003eStan Allen\u003cbr\u003eHenry Cobb\u003cbr\u003eLiz Diller \u0026amp; Ric Scofidio\u003cbr\u003ePeter Eisenman\u003cbr\u003eMichael Graves\u003cbr\u003eSteven Holl\u003cbr\u003eToshiko Mori\u003cbr\u003eMichael Sorkin\u003cbr\u003eBernard Tschumi\u003cbr\u003eTodd Williams \u0026amp; Billie Tsien\u003cbr\u003ePeter Eisenman’s Recommended Titles:\u003cbr\u003eRobert Musil, The Man Without Qualities\u003cbr\u003eLe Corbusier, Vers une Architecture\u003cbr\u003eThomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow\u003cbr\u003eRobert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture\u003cbr\u003eRem Koolhaas, Delirious New York\u003cbr\u003eJacques Derrida, Of Grammatology\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Palladio, The Four Books on Architecture\u003cbr\u003eWalter Benjamin, Illuminations\u003cbr\u003eJames Joyce, Finnegans Wake\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner, Light in August\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in association with Urban Center Books, The Architecture Bookstore of the Municipal Art Society of New York","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308016939263,"sku":"*R0075722*","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/23587133482294.jpg?v=1774030651","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/unpacking-my-library-architects-and-their-books","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}