Temples of Books - Magnificent Libraries Around the World theatre Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

David Schiesser

A monograph on one of the most influential visionary architects of the twentieth century

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Temples of Books - Magnificent Libraries Around the World theatre Pablo PicassoTemples of Books explores the most stunning examples of libraries, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather bound tomes or a mid century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth. In 2016, the worlds oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even