At Urban Center Books, New York’s municipal art society’s bookstore for architecture, Unpacking My Library, a photographic look at architect’s libraries, is on display through February 2010. The corresponding book that shows the book collections of architects such as Holl, Graves, Diller Scofidio, Tschumi and more, is forthcoming in October, 2009 from Yale University Press.

Diller Scofidio's Library

“I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. . . . Be ready to share with me a bit of the mood –  it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation – which these books arouse in a genuine collector. . . . What I am really concerned with is giving you some insight into the relationship of a book collector to his possessions, into collecting rather than a collection.” – Walter Benjamin, 1931

[image by Carlos Solis via ArchDaily]