The Architect & Designer Birthday Book by James Biber
The Architect & Designer Birthday Book by James Biber
In the Gotham Library because…
James Biber was Gotham's original architect for the 1984 opening, and in 2021 he returned to oversee renovations for our post-pandemic reopening!
A compendium, a daily design diary, an almanac, a calendar and a yearbook of the great, the unknown and the infamous figures of architecture, design and art world across history. Written and posted on Instagram every day of 2021, this collection of short biographical essays is at once informative, amusing, occasionally vexing and always opinionated, as told from the POV of the author.
The surprisingly hefty volume, designed by Michael Bierut of Pentagram, conveniently includes a silk ribbon to mark the gift recipient’s birthday, or just keep your place as you jog through the breezy text. It answers the question “who shares your birthday?” and that of every single person you know!