2 calls for articles on site review 40: the architect ’ s library
on books and reading
We would like to ask you, as an architect, designer, landscape architect, urbanist or engineer, what your relationship is to books in general and your books in particular. Is it passive or active? Do you still use your books, or do you circumvent them with wikipedia and downloads? Where are your books? on shelves? in boxes? all over the floor? What is the material world of your books — the shelves, the bookcases, the room(s) in which they live? Do you buy books, or do you consider the library as the site of your books?
If books have played a role in your development and your continued practice, we would like to hear about it.
On Site review 40: the architect’s library will work in conjunction with Architecture & Reading in Crisis , a project of city | speculations. https://www.cityspeculations.com/ To get you thinking, here are two essays about books, reading, place and time: first, a beautiful essay, recommended by Ella Chmielewska, is ‘The Drowned Library (Reflections on Found, Lost, and Translated Books and Languages)’ by Anton Shammas. There is a free download here: https://levantine-journal.org/product/drowned-library-reflections- found-lost-translated-books-languages/ The second is Nicole Raziya Fong’s ‘On the Alchemy of Fields’, in The Capilano Review , Fall 2020. https://thecapilanoreview.com/nicole- raziya-fong-on-the-alchemy-of-fields Neither of these are by architects or designers, but they talk about books as material objects, as magical stories, as things that slip forwards and back in translation: not just linguistic, but translation between phases of a life, between studies, between changes of profession, country, states of being. They move the personal from something inwardly looking and private, to something that reaches outward. We can all write about such things because we all have a life, a past, and a present —sometimes not too clear until you start to write it down and then patterns form, memories surface. So go to it! Let’s hear about the architect’s library.
word count : aim for 2000 words images : should be sent as 300dpi jpgs at least 3200px wide, with full photo credits and permission to publish for any images not your own.
Send your proposal by September 31, 2021 through our contact link: www.onsitereview.ca/contact-us
Final submissions will be due February 24, 2022
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