Architecture
Illustration by F.L. Schmied from Paul Morand's
Paysages mediterranéens (1933).
Most of the Center's architecture books come from a single acquisition: the entire stock of the London book dealer Ben Weinreb, purchased in 1969. Books from all periods, and by a great variety of authors, are in the collection: from Vitruvius and Palladio through the Adams brothers to the école des beaux-arts, and from Horace Walpole through Pugin to Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Ransom Center's holdings complement the large resources of the University's Architecture and Planning Library.
The Reading Room Will Be Closed:
May 18-27, 2013
July 4, 2013
August 17-24, 2013
August 31-September 2, 2013
November 28-30, 2013
Always closed on Sundays
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