ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out, in a series of six episodes (paired between buildings and books), an expanded conception of what constitutes the library of the architect. The thematic content moves, as if evolving a library, from initial consideration of the spatial and intentional logic of an architect accumulating and housing a collection of books or publishing a ‘complete works’, to subsequently focus on two separate readings that address a pair of library buildings and an architectural treatise. It concludes with a retrospective examination of contrasting chronologies: the evolution of a library which seeks to reconstruct a ‘history’ of its site and a book that presents a ‘natural history’ of an architectural practice’s work.
