on libraries, a selected reading list: Beaufre, Roland and Dominique Dupuich. Living With Books . London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. Bresciani, Elisabetta. MODERN: Architecture Books from the Marzona Collection. Vienna: Schlebrugge Editions, 2003. An illustratetd exhibition catalogue of architectural books from the collection of Egidio Marzona (1944- ), a German-Italian artist, art dealer and collector. Ellis, Estelle, Caroline Seebohm and Christopher S. Sykes. At Home With Books: How Booklovers Live With And Care for Their Libraries . New York: Carol Southern Books, 1995. Geddes-Brown, Leslie. Books Do Furnish a Room. London: Merrill, 2009. Harris, Eileen and Nicholas Savage. Hooked on Books: The Library of Sir John Soane Architect 1753-1837 . London: The Sir John Soane Museum, 2004. du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere, editor. Architects, Books & Libraries: A Collection of Essay. Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, 1995. Purcell, Mark. The Country House Library , New Haven & London: Yale University Press for the National Trust, 2017. An indispensable work for understanding how the landed gentry of England created library rooms on their estates for the use by friends and colleagues. de Smet, Catherine. Le Corbusier: Architect of Books . Zürich: Lars Muller, 2005. An illustrated study of the designs for over 100 architectural books and manifestos produced by Le Corbusier between 1912 and his death in 1965. Steffans, Jo, editor. Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Interviews with ten prominent American architects, and illustrations of books from their own professional and personal libraries.
Robert G Hill
The Craven Road House and Library, appeared in On Site review: 4 , Winter 2000-1, pp 26-29
Robert G. Hill FRAIC is an architect and architectural historian who lives and works in Toronto. He is the author and editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800- 1950 , and is a voracious and incorrigible collector of beautiful architectural books and journals. www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org
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