Keeping or passing on to another reader for their own library. So hopefully this exercise will help determine if a book is worth Suffice to say most of the books are on architecture and related Books willīe labeled by subject, publication date, author and other keywords, but Some words on its value (or lack thereof), and a star rating. So at the rate of roughly one book per day I'll be highlighting one bookįrom my library with a photograph, a description of where I got it, I have a lot of books (over 1,200 cataloged on LibraryThing) but not enough room for them, so to help me determine what books to keep and what books to give away ( or sell) I'm going through my books one by one to try to determine the value each holds for me. Read more about the Unpacking My Library blog below.Īlthough the title of this blog is taken from Walter Benjamin's well-known essay from Illuminations, 'Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting' (PDF link), my goal is personal rather than intellectual. The latest post from the new blog will show up in the left column here. It's basically a weeding out of books from my ever-growing library by writing briefly about one of them every day. L RUG01 L RUG01 m BOOK x EA 1 TW01 2 TW01 3 week I started a new blog, titled Unpacking My Library. Cobb - Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio - Peter Eisenman - Michael Graves - Steven Holl - Toshiko Mori - Michael Sorkin - Bernard Tschumi - Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.Ī Benjamin, Walter, d 1892-1940 4 aut 0 (viaf)46757196 Cobb - Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio - Peter Eisenman - Michael Graves - Steven Holl - Toshiko Mori - Michael Sorkin - Bernard Tschumi - Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.Ī Unpacking my library : b architects and their books / c edited by Jo Steffens featuring an essay by Walter Benjamin.Ī New Haven (Conn.) : b Yale University Press, c 2009.Ī Unpacking my library: a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin - Architects and their books: Stan Allen - Henry N. (role)aut (viaf)165122089ĪU - Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 (role)aut (viaf)46757196ĪB - Unpacking my library: a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin - Architects and their books: Stan Allen - Henry N. PB - New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University PressĪU - Steffens, Jo. TI - Unpacking my library : architects and their books New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Press, 2009. Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books. Chicago: Steffens, Jo., and Walter Benjamin. New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Press. Unpac npacking My Library A Talk about Collecting I am unpacking. Unpacking my library : architects and their books. Walter Benjamin Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith. Unpacking My Library : Architects and Their Books. : MLA: Steffens, Jo, and Walter Benjamin.

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