The AR December 2018/January 2019 Book issue
Features on books and buildings, with pieces exploring the architecture and influence of books as well as libraries and archives from across the world including the winner of the AR Library awards.
Contents December 2018/January 2019
Outrage: libraries aren’t failing us, we’re failing them
Shannon Mattern
6
Temples of ignorance: blurred boundaries between books and the buildings that house them Maarten Delbeke and Emma Letizia Jones
8
The writing on the wall: the language of buildings
Tom Wilkinson
16
Volumes of words: the architecture of the page
Hannah Gregory
22
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 31
André Tavares
Lars Müller Edwina Attlee
Ethel Baraona Pohl César Reyes Nájera Honor Gavin
Anna Winston
Irma Boom
Spreading the word: Victor Hugo’s Tumblr account
Davide Tommaso Ferrando
64
Light and enlightenment: libraries in Finnish cultural identity
Jeremy Melvin
70
AREA: Design Earth
Lili Zarzycki
74
Reputations: Clorindo Testa
Vanessa Bell
76
Revisit: Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City, Mexico, by Alberto Kalach + TAX Lili Carr
80
AR LIBRARY AWARDS 2018
88
Winner Green Square, Sydney, Australia, by Stewart Hollenstein Andrew Mackenzie
90
Highly commended Maya Somaiya School, Kopargaon, India, by sP+a A Srivathsan
102
Highly commended The Pinch, Shuanghe, China, by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin Matthew Priestman 116
Commended CTLES extension, Bussy-Saint-Georges, France, by Antonini Darmon Andrew Ayers 126
Commended NRW Landesarchiv, Duisburg, Germany, by O&O Baukunst Eleanor Beaumont
136
Recalled Changsha library, Hunan Province, China, by Neri & Hu Austin Williams
148
Shortlist
158
Published with support from Aedas: Hong Kong West Kowloon Station 162
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