Today it is Marco, tomorrow it is Frascari
An architect’s library might be said to be one in waiting. It is, and I will use a term from the Sufi poet Muhammed Al Niffari a ‘promised infancy’. What does that mean?
We have a library. We have an emerging archive. What do we do with it? How do we validate it? All of us here are aware of different aspects of Marco Frascari’s life, thinking, education, scholarly activities and so on. Examples of this are all around us; how much? What fragment of a life is represented here? And how would it help us as friends, educators, scholars, colleagues to know this? If we accept this, can we ask how Marco used his library. Some might immediately: clearly in a non-standard way? What does this mean? What is non-standard way? Can we help define this methodology?