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Books + Bytes 1/27

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Books and Bytes is a series of talks by local authors who discuss the research, writing, and publication of their art, architecture, or design book.  Our community of scholars is invited to participate in discussions afterward, so they may learn from one another’s experiences.  Books and Bytes is co-sponsored by the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the University of Houston Libraries.  

We are pleased to host the editors of More City than Water: a Houston Flood Atlas, Lacy M. Johnson, Rice University, and Cheryl Beckett, UH College of the Arts, as well as Susan Rogers, UH College of Architecture and Design, who authored one of the chapters.   

Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America’s most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure? 

More City than Water brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, More City than Water features striking maps of Houston’s floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public’s relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise. 

New Rarebooks on View

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This spring semester the Architecture, Design, and Art Library is exhibiting two new displays featuring items from the rare books room.

First, located on the first floor of the library, are a selection of posters from Art in Posters, the Complete Original Posters of Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Leger, Matisse, Miro, and Picasso (1959).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On view upstairs in the mezzanine floor display case are a few plates from Sketches Abroad: Germany & Switzerland. Made Whilst Traveling Student of the Royal Academy (1876) by Bernard Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These two exhibits will be available until June 2023.

Featured Artist Javier Rivera

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The Architecture, Design, and Art Library proudly presents the work of featured artist ‘22-23 Javier Rivera. His exhibit, Street Corners, will be on view until March 2023. 

Statement 
My work expresses the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. I am able to express this by telling a story or creating a metaphor. It is characterized by using everyday objects and situations in an atmosphere of class difference, in which recognition plays an important role. It is through recognition that I can portray my community and speak to a broader audience. With this, I seek to investigate the representations of cultures and situations as well as depictions and ideas. 

Bio
Javier Rivera is a Houston based artist who takes inspiration from subcultures, background, and landscapes. His paintings and artworks demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits, and often tells a story about cultural interactions. Rivera is currently a student at the University of Houston, in his final year of the School of Art’s Painting Program.  

Virtual Pop-Up Archives 2022

General Announcements, New Resource

Spring 2022

 

March 22, 2022

Pop-up Library

Theme: Celebrating National Craft Month

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May 12, 2022

Pop-Up Library

Theme: Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month

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Fall 2022

 

September 22, 2022

Pop-up Library & Showcase

Theme: Celebrating LatinX Heritage Month

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