Exhibitions
Unpacking My Library: 10 Architects & Their Books
This exhibit by the MAS bookstore Urban Center Books takes a look at the libraries of some of the most influential New York architects working today. It documents the architects’ personal book collections, offering an intriguing look at what has influenced them intellectually.
Throughout the next 12 months a different architect will be featured every month, and the exhibit opened in May with a look inside the library of controversial architect Peter Eisenman, and currently features the books of Ric Diller and Liz Scofidio.
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Urban Center Books & Gallery Hours:
Urban Center Books, the bookstore of the Muncipal Art Society, will close on Saturday, January 23, 2010, when we vacate the Villard Houses. MAS headquarters is relocating to the Steinway Building, at 111 West 57th Street, and a search for a new location for Urban Center Books (UCB) is underway.
Urban Center Books will be open in its present location throughout the holiday season, offering shoppers a diverse collection of books on architecture, design, New York, landscape design and urbanism.
We expect to reopen Urban Center Books in a new location by the fall. Urban Center Books will continue to have an online presence, at www.urbancenterbooks.org, and we hope our patrons visit us online until the store reopens. Check the UCB web site for updates on the move.
Until then bookstore hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday: 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Closed Thursday and Sunday
For directions to MAS, click here for a map.