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301 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 31 cm |
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Paradise reinvents itself / Marianne Julia Strauss -- Strahov Monastery Library, Prague, Czech Republic -- DePetrus Library, Vught, Netherlands -- Fyyri Library, Kirkkonummi, Finland -- Jesuit Library at Maria Laach Abbey, Maria Laach, Germany -- Seiñjoki Library, Seiñjoki, Finland -- Hunters Point Library, New York, New York, USA -- St. Catherine's Monastery Library, Sinai Desert, Egypt -- Lincoln College Library, Oxford, UK -- William W. Cook Legal Research Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA -- Robarts Library, Toronto, Canada -- LocHal, Tilburg, Netherlands -- Metten Monastery Library, Metten, Germany -- Hyundai Card Cooking Library, Seoul, South Korea -- Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal -- Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington, USA -- George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA -- Thiksey Gompa Library, Leh, India -- Biblioteca da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal -- Stift Sch̃lgel Library, Aigen-Sch̃lgel, Austria -- Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA -- Bibliotḧque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, France -- Omah Library, Kecamatan Kembangan, Indonesia -- Bibliotḧque du Šnat, Paris, France -- Library of the Hungarian Parliament, Budapest, Hungary -- Library of Muyinga, Muyinga, Burundi -- Altenburg Monastery Library, Altenburg, Austria -- Berlin State Library, Berlin, Germany -- State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia -- The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, New York, USA -- Cuypersbibliotheek, Amsterdam, Netherlands -- The Uncensored Library, Minecraft, online -- The Libraries of Chinguetti, Chinguetti, Mauritania -- al-Qarawiyyin Library, Fez, Morocco -- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA -- Biblioteca del Piffetti, Rome, Italy -- National Library of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan -- Parque Biblioteca Espąa, Medel̕ln, Columbia -- National Library of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo -- Qatar National Library, Al Rayyan, Qatar -- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington D.C., USA -- T̀hi B⁺nh Ĺu Royal Library, HuΜ , Vietnam -- Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, UK -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt -- Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City, Mexico -- Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria -- Geisel Library, San Diego, California, USA -- Tianjin Binhai Library, Tianjin, China -- Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland -- Class of 1945 Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA -- Real Gabinete Portugůs de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Sir Horace Walpole Strawberry Hill Library, Twickenham, UK -- Wiblingen Monastery Library, Ulm, Germany -- Rampur Raza Library, Rampur, India -- Library of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. |
| Summary |
Libraries are so much more than collections of books. They are archives of knowledge, spaces of study, sources of inspiration and connection. Among the world's most universal and democratic places, they are also outstanding icons of architecture that represent the societies that built them.Temples of Books celebrates the world's oldest and grandest shrines to the written word, as well as new and tiny ones: from baroque palaces to micro-libraries made of recycled plastics, and the unlikely ones in between.Looking at the diverse architecture of global libraries throughout the ages, Temples of Books goes further and explores the very idea of libraries themselves. This is a book about the beauty of books, a book for book lovers and for those who believe in the power of ideals. |
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Library buildings.
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Library architecture.
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Library buildings -- Pictorial works.
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Library architecture. (OCoLC)fst00997633
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Library buildings. (OCoLC)fst00997647
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illustrated books. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300311820
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Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
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Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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Illustrated works.
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Klanten, Robert, editor. Editor.
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Fitzpatrick, Maisie, translator.
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Gestalten Verlag, publisher.
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Büchertempel English
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| ISBN |
9783967040241 (hardcover) |
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3967040240 (hardcover) |
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