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From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It's the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri's poised images capture the library's unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details. Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow, and the priceless holdings of the Laurentian Library in Florence, the private library of the powerful House of Medici, designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries' astonishing holdings - from which highlights are illustrated - but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars of religion. Or the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its horde of archival Inquisition documents. At once a bibliophile beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the particular magic of print, Listri Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.

Library buildings --- Library architecture --- Libraries --- Libraries. --- Library architecture. --- Library buildings. --- History. --- History --- Library planning and design --- Book history --- libraries [buildings] --- book history --- Bibliotheekbouw --- Boekgeschiedenis --- bibliotheken [gebouwen] --- boekgeschiedenis --- Library buildings - Pictorial works --- Library architecture - Pictorial works --- Libraries - History

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Providing a comprehensive survey of contemporary 20th-century American architects, this work features the work of: Steven Ehrlich, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Ieoh Ming Pei and many more.

72.036 --- Verenigde Staten --- Architectuur Verenigde Staten 1990-1996 --- Agrest and Gandelsonas --- Arquitectonica --- Bruder, William P. --- Eisenman, Peter --- Forbes, Peter --- Holl, Steven --- Pei, Ieoh Ming --- Pelli, Cesar --- Predock, Antoine --- Prince, Bart --- Scogin, Elam and Bray --- Site --- Ungers, Simon --- Moss, Eric Owen --- Gehry, Frank O. --- Meier, Richard --- 72.038 --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis 1950 - 2000 --- chapels [rooms or structures] --- Mockbee, Sambo --- Gwathmey, Charles --- Moss, Eric --- Morphosis --- Pei, Ieoh M. --- S.i.t.e., Groupe D'architectes Xxe S. --- Jahn, Helmut --- Gandelsonas, Mario --- Agrest, Diana --- Pelli, César --- Bruder, Will --- Ehrlich, Steven --- Johnson, Philip --- Rauh, Richard --- Viñoli, Rafael --- Woods, Lebbeus --- Architectuur Verenigde Staten 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur Verenigde Staten 1980-1993 --- Verenigde staten --- Eisenman Peter --- Gehry Frank O. --- Gwathmey Charles --- Holl Steven --- Jahn Helmut --- Meier Richard --- Moore Charles --- Moss Eric Owen --- Pei I.M. --- Predock Antoine --- prince Bart --- SITE --- Venturi Robert --- Postmodern architecture --- Morphosis [New York, N.Y.] --- Menil, de, François --- Architectuur Verenigde Staten 1990-1997 --- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems --- De Menil, François --- Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio --- RoTo Architects --- Thompson & Rose Architects --- Architectes américains --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 1990-1997 --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Architecture, Postmodern --- -Architecture --- -72.036 --- Moore, Charles --- Venturi, Robert --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 1980-1993 --- architectuur --- twintigste eeuw --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Modern --- Postmodernism --- Design and construction --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 1990-1996 --- museums [buildings] --- Religious architecture --- libraries [buildings] --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- Public buildings --- Gehry, Frank --- United States --- Pei, I.M. --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Architectes --- À l'étranger --- Groupe d'architectes --- Architecture contemporaine --- Architecte --- History --- 20e siècle --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 20ste eeuw --- Architecture postmoderne --- Histoire --- Gehry, Frank Owen --- Openbare gebouwen --- Religieuze architectuur --- Architectuur --- architectuur [vakgebied] --- kapellen [ruimten of constructies] --- musea --- bibliotheken [gebouwen] --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Gehry, Frank O --- Gehry Frank O --- Pei I.M --- Bruder, William P --- Venturi, Robert, --- Holl, Steven, --- Eisenman, Peter, --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture - United States - History - 20th century --- Architecture, Postmodern - United States --- Venturi, Robert, 1925-2018 --- Holl, Steven, 1947 --- -Gehry, Frank Owen --- Eisenman, Peter, 1932 --- -Arquitectonica --- Architectes américains --- À l'étranger --- United States of America --- -Architectes --- ARCHITECTURE --- ETATS-UNIS --- 1970 - 2000 --- -Groupe d'architectes --- Mockbee, Samuel