Unpacking系列：建筑师的书架第二辑Henry N.Cobb
Henry N.Cobb
UCB:The expanse of your library speaks to a breadth of intellectual curiosity, a period of prodigious reading, and perhaps a grand tour. Did you take any architectural pilgrimages in your youth, and do you find yourself in a cultural exchange with the wide range of places you work in today?
Henry N.Cobb（以下无标注）:In the summer of 1935, at age nine, I was taken with my brothers on a sort of mini-grand tour (Italy,Switzerland,France), which aroused enthusiasms that later led to my decision to become an architect. In 1947 I spent six weeks studying post-war reconstruction in England, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. And in 1957 I enjoyed a four-month sabbatical in Italy with my wife and our first child. Virtually all my subsequent travel, extensive and far-flung, has mirrored the geographic diversity of my practice.Inasmuch as I believe that works of architecture should always reflect a concern for the specific physical and cultural contexts in which they occur, the investigation of other cultures has of necessity been a constant in my professinal life.
UCB:Your books appear to have been collected over a long period of time, and the textures and colors suggest that a large number of them may now be collector's items. What is the relationship between your collecting and your development as an architect and thinker? And what informed the particular design of your library?
Most of our great local bookstores have disappeared over the past half century:George Wittenborn, Lucien Goldschmidt, Gotham Book Mart, Books & Co.,Madison Avenue Books, to name a few. My wife and I do not regard ourselves as collectors, and only a few of the books in our shared library could be called rare. Every book we own is a book that wew want to read, although some remain as yet unread. In my architecture library, on the other hand, perhaps half the books are there for occasional reference rather than for reading. Both libraries reflect in their design my preference for embedded(as opposed to projecting)bookcases, ordered by broad vertical partitions and narrow shelves.Books seem to me most at home in that setting.
UCB:Many of your books are exceptional for the qualities of their drawings. Is drawing important to you for resolving ideas in your pratice? And what do the drawing skills of young architects say about the nature of design as it is practiced today?
Drawing is always important, even for those like me who are not skilled draftsmen. Ideas emerge through drawing, ideas are tested through drawing, and ideas are represented through drawing. The least important function of drawing is to show others "what it will look like,"In this digital era, young architects command new means and methods of representation that are beyond my reach. I do not begrudge them this advantage, provided they take care to place those means and methods in the service of ideas.
Henry N.Cobb
这次官网没有更新他的藏书图片，只能自己拍摄了。
只讲了点他坚持用手绘图记录想法，并对已经消失的一些收藏古书籍的书店念念不忘。
与昨天相对比COBB收藏了很多老版图书，并且也对绘画艺术独有钟情。
TOP TEN BOOKS:
Isaiah Berlin
The Crooked Timber of Humanity:Chapters in the History of ideas
http://book.douban.com/subject/4075648/ (下面重点介绍作者1）
Joseph Connors
Borromini and the Roman Oratory:Style and Society
http://www.amazon.com/Borromini-Roman-Oratory-Architectural-Foundation/dp/0262030713 （AMAZON书店链接）
Le Corbusier
Une petite maison
http://book.douban.com/subject/2645978/ （原书名为法语，抱歉不能打出）
Ross Feld
Guston in Time:Remembering Phillip Guston
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3l8sxpoQjVcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ross+Feld++Guston+in+Time:Remembering+Phillip+Guston&source=bl&ots=rupNlUKE_2&sig=3X24r2ceutCAo_vOaYor2_VVSlI&hl=zh-CN&ei=mLg6TZ-DMJDevQOj8pi9Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
（谷歌图书）
R.D.Martienssen
The Idea of Space in Greek Architecture
http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/arch_det.php?archid=1053&bldgorder=%60tblbldg%60.%60name%60&orderby=&initial=&source=1 （一篇与作者相关的文章，文章显示作者与柯布西耶、密斯、赖特等一起工作过）
Marcel Proust
Du cote de chez Swann [Swann's Way]
http://www.librarything.com/work/18169 （下有英文书评，原文法语）
John Summerson
Georgian London
http://book.douban.com/subject/2815845/
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300089882 （耶鲁大学2003年新版附简介）
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On Growth and Farm
http://book.douban.com/subject/2880056/ （下面将着重介绍作者2）
Paul Valery
Degas, Manet, Morisot
http://book.douban.com/subject/3039702/ （这是本瓦列里对德加、莫奈、雷诺阿等印象派画家的个人回忆录，原文法语，豆瓣提供的是英文版）
Robert Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
http://book.douban.com/subject/1752262/ （跟昨天的TOPTEN第十同一本= = 但COBB的版本似乎要更老些）
提到的几个书店：
George Wittenborn 似乎是北美的一家艺术书店，现在有以它命名的ARLIS/NA机构所颁发的艺术出版奖
Lucien Goldschmidt
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/18/obituaries/lucien-goldschmidt-rare-book-dealer-80.html
纽约时报93年关于书店主人去世的一篇纪念通讯
Gotham Book Mart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Book_Mart
关于这家07年关闭的书店维基条目
Books & Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_%26_Co.
美国超级书店连锁
Madison Avenue Books
http://www.madisonavenuebookshop.com/
似乎是这家书店的博客
关于
Isaiah Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin
他的维基页面介绍：柏林爵士是一位社会和政治理论家，哲学家和历史思想家。
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson
他的维基页面显示：汤普森爵士是一位苏格兰生物学家，数学家和古典文学研究者，开拓数学生物学领域的人。
Unpacking系列的PERFACE：
http://www.douban.com/note/130046856/
第一辑：
http://www.douban.com/note/130945263/
UCB:The expanse of your library speaks to a breadth of intellectual curiosity, a period of prodigious reading, and perhaps a grand tour. Did you take any architectural pilgrimages in your youth, and do you find yourself in a cultural exchange with the wide range of places you work in today?
Henry N.Cobb（以下无标注）:In the summer of 1935, at age nine, I was taken with my brothers on a sort of mini-grand tour (Italy,Switzerland,France), which aroused enthusiasms that later led to my decision to become an architect. In 1947 I spent six weeks studying post-war reconstruction in England, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. And in 1957 I enjoyed a four-month sabbatical in Italy with my wife and our first child. Virtually all my subsequent travel, extensive and far-flung, has mirrored the geographic diversity of my practice.Inasmuch as I believe that works of architecture should always reflect a concern for the specific physical and cultural contexts in which they occur, the investigation of other cultures has of necessity been a constant in my professinal life.
UCB:Your books appear to have been collected over a long period of time, and the textures and colors suggest that a large number of them may now be collector's items. What is the relationship between your collecting and your development as an architect and thinker? And what informed the particular design of your library?
Most of our great local bookstores have disappeared over the past half century:George Wittenborn, Lucien Goldschmidt, Gotham Book Mart, Books & Co.,Madison Avenue Books, to name a few. My wife and I do not regard ourselves as collectors, and only a few of the books in our shared library could be called rare. Every book we own is a book that wew want to read, although some remain as yet unread. In my architecture library, on the other hand, perhaps half the books are there for occasional reference rather than for reading. Both libraries reflect in their design my preference for embedded(as opposed to projecting)bookcases, ordered by broad vertical partitions and narrow shelves.Books seem to me most at home in that setting.
UCB:Many of your books are exceptional for the qualities of their drawings. Is drawing important to you for resolving ideas in your pratice? And what do the drawing skills of young architects say about the nature of design as it is practiced today?
Drawing is always important, even for those like me who are not skilled draftsmen. Ideas emerge through drawing, ideas are tested through drawing, and ideas are represented through drawing. The least important function of drawing is to show others "what it will look like,"In this digital era, young architects command new means and methods of representation that are beyond my reach. I do not begrudge them this advantage, provided they take care to place those means and methods in the service of ideas.
Henry N.Cobb
这次官网没有更新他的藏书图片，只能自己拍摄了。
只讲了点他坚持用手绘图记录想法，并对已经消失的一些收藏古书籍的书店念念不忘。
与昨天相对比COBB收藏了很多老版图书，并且也对绘画艺术独有钟情。
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TOP TEN BOOKS:
Isaiah Berlin
The Crooked Timber of Humanity:Chapters in the History of ideas
http://book.douban.com/subject/4075648/ (下面重点介绍作者1）
Joseph Connors
Borromini and the Roman Oratory:Style and Society
http://www.amazon.com/Borromini-Roman-Oratory-Architectural-Foundation/dp/0262030713 （AMAZON书店链接）
Le Corbusier
Une petite maison
http://book.douban.com/subject/2645978/ （原书名为法语，抱歉不能打出）
Ross Feld
Guston in Time:Remembering Phillip Guston
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3l8sxpoQjVcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ross+Feld++Guston+in+Time:Remembering+Phillip+Guston&source=bl&ots=rupNlUKE_2&sig=3X24r2ceutCAo_vOaYor2_VVSlI&hl=zh-CN&ei=mLg6TZ-DMJDevQOj8pi9Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
（谷歌图书）
R.D.Martienssen
The Idea of Space in Greek Architecture
http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/arch_det.php?archid=1053&bldgorder=%60tblbldg%60.%60name%60&orderby=&initial=&source=1 （一篇与作者相关的文章，文章显示作者与柯布西耶、密斯、赖特等一起工作过）
Marcel Proust
Du cote de chez Swann [Swann's Way]
http://www.librarything.com/work/18169 （下有英文书评，原文法语）
John Summerson
Georgian London
http://book.douban.com/subject/2815845/
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300089882 （耶鲁大学2003年新版附简介）
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On Growth and Farm
http://book.douban.com/subject/2880056/ （下面将着重介绍作者2）
Paul Valery
Degas, Manet, Morisot
http://book.douban.com/subject/3039702/ （这是本瓦列里对德加、莫奈、雷诺阿等印象派画家的个人回忆录，原文法语，豆瓣提供的是英文版）
Robert Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
http://book.douban.com/subject/1752262/ （跟昨天的TOPTEN第十同一本= = 但COBB的版本似乎要更老些）
提到的几个书店：
George Wittenborn 似乎是北美的一家艺术书店，现在有以它命名的ARLIS/NA机构所颁发的艺术出版奖
Lucien Goldschmidt
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/18/obituaries/lucien-goldschmidt-rare-book-dealer-80.html
纽约时报93年关于书店主人去世的一篇纪念通讯
Gotham Book Mart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Book_Mart
关于这家07年关闭的书店维基条目
Books & Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_%26_Co.
美国超级书店连锁
Madison Avenue Books
http://www.madisonavenuebookshop.com/
似乎是这家书店的博客
关于
Isaiah Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin
他的维基页面介绍：柏林爵士是一位社会和政治理论家，哲学家和历史思想家。
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson
他的维基页面显示：汤普森爵士是一位苏格兰生物学家，数学家和古典文学研究者，开拓数学生物学领域的人。
Unpacking系列的PERFACE：
http://www.douban.com/note/130046856/
第一辑：
http://www.douban.com/note/130945263/
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Henry 转发了这篇日记 2011-12-08 22:04:24
