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Temples of Books - Magnificent Libraries Around the World by Marianne Julia Strauss and gestalten
Temples of Books is a book about magnificent libraries around the world by gestalten
The Seinäjoki Library, conceptualized in the 1960s by Alvar Aalto, is a masterpiece of modern architecture and is part of a downtown area with a consistent design. The challenge for JKMM Architects was contained therein: to simultaneously respect the city’s visual character and make a bold statement of its own.
Strahov Monastery Library is the largest of its kind in the Czech Republic and boasts a formidable collection of manuscripts, maps, and precious scriptures. Find out more about it in Temples of Books by gestalten.
Discover the Jesuit Library at Maria Laach Abbey in Temples of Books by gestalten
In the 19th century, George Peabody, a patron of the arts, donated the Peabody Institute and Library to the citizens of Baltimore in gratitude for their “kindness and hospitality.” That ethos informs the running of the library to this very day.
Sunlight streams down through the huge skylight, illuminating the six floors of the George Peabody Library. With its lovingly sculpted columns, arches, and cast-iron balconies, this library has a deserved reputation as one of the most beautiful in the world.
Read more about The Uncensored Library in Temples of Books by gestalten.
Find out more about the De Petrus Library in Temples of Books by gestalten.
Lochal is a hybrid library in a former railway depot provides a new take on urban community living. Designed by Civic Architects, Mecanoo, and Braaksma & Roos, this library opened in 2018 in Tilburg. Discover more about it in Temples of Books by gestalten.
An example of Library featured in Temples of Books by gestalten.
Discover Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura in Temples of Books by gestalten
The library in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is a work of art in its own right. Find out more about it in Temples of Books by gestalten.
Some 2,300 years after the destruction of its famed predecessor, the Egyptian Bibliotheca Alexandrina is making a second attempt at bringing all the world’s knowledge together in one place through dialogue, cosmopolitanism, and digitization.
The “accumulated treasures of wisdom and scholarship” certainly merit a rococo hall of such splendor. Find out all about the Wiblingen Monastery Library in Temples of Books.
Discover the most beautiful libraries around the world in Temples of Books by gestalten

Temples of Books

Magnificent Libraries Around the World

This journey to the grandest and most beautiful libraries of the world will make you fall in love with books all over again.

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Description

Libraries are so much more than collections of books. They are archives of knowledge, spaces of study, sources of inspiration and connection. Among the world’s most universal and democratic places, they are also outstanding icons of architecture that represent the societies that built them.

Temples of Books celebrates the world’s oldest and grandest shrines to the written word, as well as new and tiny ones: from baroque palaces to micro-libraries made of recycled plastics, and the unlikely ones in between.

Looking at the diverse architecture of global libraries throughout the ages, Temples of Books goes further and explores the very idea of libraries themselves. This is a book about the beauty of books, a book for book lovers and for those who believe in the power of ideals.

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"Alive with the wonder of collective wisdom, the library is a near-sacred space. New tome Temple of Books is a celebration of the world’s most hallowed archives, from baroque halls to staggering new builds that seek to preserve its status in our digital age"

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