Martin's Scribbles
eBook - ePub

Martin's Scribbles

Sort of a Memoir

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Martin's Scribbles

Sort of a Memoir

About this book

What do Prague, London, New York and Tehran have in common? Award-winning architect Martin Holub has lived, designed buildings and enriched lives in all these places. Martin's Scribbles is a travel memoir, meets architect biography, meets lifetime reflection. Readers are taken on a playful romp through the latter twentieth-century to the present, as seen through the eyes of Holub – from a schoolboy in Czechoslovakia with an imprisoned mother, to an expat and lively architect living, working and socializing in New York City. A collection of autobiographical short stories, Martin's Scribbles is an entertaining account of Holub's experiences in his 80 years of travel, architecture, love and expat life; at times hilarious and others heartbreaking. This most unlikely memoir provides a very personal and intimate witness of the world's recent history through the anecdotes and reflections of a well-traveled man, husband and architect. Holub's creative visualization of memorable moments and influential meetings evoke a feeling of nostalgia for one's own past experiences, and are told as only Holub himself could tell them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Arrival in the New World
  7. Peach on the Beach
  8. An Angel on Wheels
  9. My MotherÂ’s Purchase of Art
  10. Going to Tehran
  11. Exchange Trip to Georgia
  12. Strictly Personals
  13. How Did I Become an Architect?
  14. My Grandfather Bohumír
  15. Flash Revelations
  16. First Visit Home
  17. The Intelligent Typist
  18. Apartment Hunting in New York City
  19. Becoming a Citizen
  20. Naftee Man
  21. Two Percent
  22. First Wedding
  23. A Close Call
  24. Ginsberg
  25. Early Sex Stories
  26. St. MartinÂ’s Parties
  27. My First and Last Job in America
  28. Banishment
  29. Stroke of Luck
  30. How I Danced with a Feminist
  31. My Take on Iran
  32. The End of an Era
  33. My Mother
  34. Rusty Goat
  35. How Communism Helped My Career
  36. First Honeymoon
  37. SothebyÂ’s
  38. How I Did Not Become a Fashion Model
  39. Woodstock College
  40. War Memories
  41. Simon Alexander
  42. Yevtushenko in Jackson Hole
  43. My Lecture in Prague
  44. Mrs. Weiner
  45. Coincidences
  46. Stateless in Tehran
  47. First Time Out
  48. Advocate
  49. Scared in Times Square
  50. Karen
  51. Olives in Varna
  52. Legal Victory
  53. Studio 54
  54. Ideological Dossier
  55. Iranian Architect
  56. Too Late
  57. Teaching
  58. My MotherÂ’s Mink Coat
  59. Design Philosophy
  60. My Father
  61. Kazimir Jones
  62. My Troubles with English
  63. Building Together
  64. My GrandmotherÂ’s Ashes
  65. Asia Society
  66. Teenage Obstreperousness
  67. Divorce
  68. C of O
  69. Robbery in Catania
  70. Boarding School
  71. Thick Skin
  72. My Time in the Czechoslovak Army
  73. Leaving London
  74. A Stunningly Beautiful Woman
  75. Subterfuge
  76. Jasan
  77. Childlessness
  78. Guilt
  79. Piano Lessons
  80. Church Pistols
  81. How Communism Warped People
  82. The Mattress Principle
  83. School in Nature
  84. A New York Moment
  85. More than One Life
  86. A Foolhardy Flight
  87. Patriotism
  88. Mr. Heckert
  89. Third Marriage
  90. Louis Kahn
  91. More Childhood Memories, This Time Not Sexual
  92. Metaphysical? Supernatural?
  93. Park East Synagogue
  94. What Kind of Dogs?