Greg Snyder’s curated, important, books
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Each faculty member identified and composed their books, and then measured them. Individual shelves were fabricated for each collection. There were some remarkable distinctions between the faculty members: one required a shelf 53” wide, one was content with 1 1/2”; a few needed segmented shelves to better differentiate their influences and enthusiasms. Some offered excerpts from both their pre-PhD selves as well as their post-PhD selves … some did not. Some took delight in arranging the books — in all likelihood a composition born of diagrams and iterative analysis; another exploited the play of words and titles to demonstrate their acute wit; many just offered their most sincere account of interest through a curated collection intended to both encourage and provoke. Apart from the electricity and interactions of the opening, it was through the activity of photographing the bookshelves as a record of the event that catalysed the most meaningful
Greg Snyder is an Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests are in issues that arise out of acts of making and construction, and the phenomena and meaning that accrue in and around these acts. 1 Calvino, Italo. ‘Whom do we Write For? or The Hypothetical Bookshelf’. The Uses of Literature . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. p81 2 Calvino, Italo. ‘Ersilla’. Invisible Cities . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 19798. p76 3 Rossi, Aldo. A Scientific Autobiography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981. p19 realisations about this exhibition. I was alone in the Gallery with the twenty-five bookshelves. The thought emerged that I was sharing the space with twenty-five surrogate selves, the books and the bookshelves embodying at least one version of a portrait of each of my faculty colleagues. c
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