ramble through the bronx
yes, this here is ramble through the bronx, the continuing musings of a graduate student* who should be writing her dissertation, but honestly, living in new york city there's really so much else to do...* and her commenting friends. And guest blogger.
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
back at Robarts library
For people who have never been on the campus of the University of Toronto, there's no real good way of describing the madness that is Robarts Library. It is also known as Fort Book. Legend has it that Umberto Eco was at a semiotics conference at U of T and visited Robarts & there had the idea for the library in The Name of the Rose. It's 14 floors. One set of elevators stops at the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 14th floors, and the other set stops at the 1st, 4th, and 9-13th floors. The building is the shape of a peacock. The man for whom it is named, John P. Robarts, killed himself. (he had been premier of ontario for a while and killed himself in 1982).
Here's the Wikipedia entry for Robarts.
Shouldn't a library be homey rather than brutalist?
Anyway. I'm there doing some editing work for my professor. And checking email. And enjoying the (very meagre) air conditioning (a true luxury in Toronto at the moment).
jane 1:20 PM [+]
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