Candida Hofer Libraries

Candida Höfer Libraries is a book that features photographies of the world’s most magnificient libraries. Those are not your common school libraries but true cathedrals of knowledge housed in some of the most beautiful buildings ever created. The libraries featured include the British Library in London, the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, the villa Medici in Rome and the Hamburg University Library, among others.

September 25, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Phil - Comments: 1

September 26th, 2006 at 9:23 am
What an incredibly beautiful and inspiring library, thanks for sharing with us.
Although I think a book with a few hundred photos of libraries will bore me pretty fast, so I won’t buy the book